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Coward’s Power Play

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”

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”

Whack-a-mole, a Conundrum, and a Siren Song

Part 2 Judge not; do not hate; love, love, love…sounds so good and so right…this catch phrase with which we have disciplined our lives. The Deceiver revels in the perversion of Christ’s teaching into a diluted gruel that neither nourishes nor sustains us. The Deceiver (evil, Satan, Lucifer, the Enemy-whatever name you give to theContinue reading “Whack-a-mole, a Conundrum, and a Siren Song”