2024.04.26

(Originally Published 2020.10.13) a few weeks before the last presidential election. Unfortunately, It’s still relevant! On 2020.10.02, USA Today ran a headline, “President Donald Trump’s coronavirus infection draws international sympathy and a degree of schadenfreude.” If you are like me, the last word jumps out. Let’s go to the dictionary! Schadenfreude – Enjoyment obtained from […]

2024.04.25

(Originally PuBlished 2020.06.08) Note: The events mentioned in this bLOG sent me off on an odyssey I am still on. Here we sit almost four years later, and it is just as relevant today as it was then. Can we see the Imago Dei in others? “New Glasses“ When I turned forty, someone turned off a […]

2024.04.24

Originally Published 2020.05.19 “Living the Dream!” No “stay at home” order, no Zoom meetings. Now, with help from Zoom and my tech team (The Shmooze and Baby), I’m able to fulfill a lifelong dream! And the more experienced and proficient at Zoom I become, the greater the fulfillment! Go big or go home! Statler: Who’s […]

2024.04.23

Originally Published 2020.04.07 “Please don’t forget that there were good and smart people in our past!” There is a tendency in this culture to condemn the past because people were not as socially “enlightened” as we are now. Yet, you can find plenty of examples of people trying really hard to make statements back in […]

2024.04.22

Oriiginally Published on Easter Sunday, 2020.04.02. Never forget what it was like! “Perspective” So I arrived home from worship, donned my civilian clothes (hoodie, jeans, Pro-keds), and made myself some breakfast. I managed to make it through worship with only one breakdown. I had told Mrs. Flying Scotsman before the service that I was worried […]

2024.04.21

Originally Published 2020.03.22 This was published on that Sunday morning the week after the COVID lockdown began. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name […]

2024.04.20

Originally Published 2019.05.21 “Worshipping 42” A couple of Notes: First, this may be the longest bLOG I ever wrote. Second, truth be told, the statistics noted toward the end dramatically changed during and after COVID; our numbers are little more than half of what they used to be as people have turned into Post-Apocalyptic Shopping […]