faith – Scattered Verses

A Psalm for Today

O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

These days, our reaction as a society to hypocrisy could be an illustration of hypocrisy itself. The entrenched on either side of an issue scream “Hypocrite!” at each other across a divide of their own making…to insure the increase of that divide. Like children choosing sides to play Red Rover, many of our politicians, ourContinue reading “Coward’s Power Play”

Got Hope?

Like Truth, like faith, like all that is noble, hope emanates from outside ourselves. Our society is in the throws of turmoil because too many of us wish to own those things that are beyond our individual selves. In the core of our beings we know that we do not have the capability of owningContinue reading “Got Hope?”

The Literal of the Word

One of the most immature ideas I ever had about the Bible was that it must be both literally and figuratively true at the same time. Jesus made the prophecies literally true. Much that is literal can be found in the poetry of the Psalms. ‘The Song of Solomon,’ however, definitively disabuses one of thatContinue reading “The Literal of the Word”

“The Day I Was to Die”

I have known three things all my life… 1. My death would be a spectacle… 2. The day that I was to die would be recorded in the annals of history, witnessed by hundreds… 3. To this very day, you would know MY name, Barabbas. My death was going to be nasty—the pain, the agonyContinue reading ““The Day I Was to Die””