This morning’s News Flash: Bombing terrorist entombed in undisclosed location!  Two weeks ago if we could have peered into the future and seen this headline we would likely have concluded it was a slow news day. On week ago a longtime friend called to tell me about the bitter controversy then raging about where and whether [...]

We’re all familiar with the concept of “collateral damage.”  In a military operation there may be unintended destruction resulting in injury and death, even of the innocent, even in a day when laser technology allows for greater precision in the use of weapons with massive destructive potential.  In some circles, leaders expect a certain amount [...]

On this Palm Sunday I have imagined a populist President-elect approaching her inaugural day and the start of her administration.  She is the first woman President, which nearly all agree was a long time coming.  Yet, remarkably, even as recently as 18 months ago, no one anticipated the election of this President. She had burst [...]

During the season of Lent we wait with Jesus as he awaits execution.  Our waiting, however, is not a passive waiting—just being there as detached observers.  No, it’s an active, intense, strenuous waiting with Jesus. If we can use modern imagery, we join Jesus on death row and it’s as if we are waiting for [...]

I remember often thinking to myself, “how could anyone with even an ounce of decency, let alone the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, seriously support slavery?”  I asked myself that question after watching the celebrated Roots miniseries years ago.  I asked myself that question when I read or heard about the heinous Apartheid system [...]