August 19, 2014
I have put aside the Rev. Al Sharpton’s sermons, and tucked my white sheet back into the attic trunk, in the endeavor to make some sense of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. We are dealing here with some basic elements in our culture and society that sometimes get buried in the rancid rhetoric generated by […]
January 22, 2013
A few weeks ago, the night of Jan. 18th I think, I was listening to Bill O’Reilly on the Fox Channel dispute one of his guests on the nature of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The guest basically contended there was no religious expression, thought, or words in either document, and it was […]
January 9, 2012
Early in December, 2011, at a speech at the International Human Rights Day celebration in Geneva, Switzerland, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTs in the current jargon) people “universal” and criticized nations that criminalize gay behavior or tolerate abuse of gay, bisexual or transgendered people as […]
December 14, 2011
Early in December I attended a conference in Washington DC on human rights. It wasn’t sponsored by the government but by a small college, Alma College, in Michigan founded by the Presbyterians. It was not a political rally or a forum with code words promoting one political agenda over another. It was devoted to the […]
January 6, 2023
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