After six decades of breathing I am at a place where I finally think I have a few things figured out. Very few, but a few. Still there are way more things th...

This coming Sunday the members and friends of the Historic Bethany Union Church of Chicago will begin their 26 day pilgrimage into Thank Fullness. Everyone w...

Has the circle moved in closer? Or perhaps it is a noose that has tightened? Not only has someone moved my cheese, they have proven to me that cheese isn’t w...

PUDDY NOSE JESUS A long time ago, Dean Bogie Dunn warned us seminarians about the puddy nose Jesus. He warned us that this paddy nose was our own doing. Peop...

A JESUS MANIFESTO Of course Jesus never wrote a manifesto, nor a novel, or any book at all. The Holy Bible was not written by Jesus but is written about Jesu...

Shouldn’t things be getting better by now? I am aware that there have been amazing strides in how humans can live and flourish. But for most human beings an ...

Carl Sandburg wrote that all to familiar poem which would guide us to taking the path that is not as well traveled as the other. We all know what it means, o...

God gives us God!

This picture of Christ depicts him walking in solidarity with the masses of migrants, refugees, and “illegals.” Never will you see the Christ in an ICE unif...

Why just girls and why science and tech?