Every weekday sometime around 11:30 am I find my way over to Lakeview Presbyterian Church’s third space where I enjoy a better than home cooked meal prepared by First Slice Read More
A Conversation with Ann Marie on Community
I often feel challenged by the craziness I see in the world around me. I turn on the News and I hear about the latest killings, fires and mayhem interspersed Read More
“Why Wonder Why”
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man…” (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving) Sometimes I just wish I Read More
We Are All Called to be Builders
Can you imagine a world “of hopes, dreams and visions…where prophets speak…where peace and justice meet…where outcasts and strangers bear the image of God’s Face and the cross stands as Read More
Facing Hate Head On
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love… Our aim must never be to defeat Read More
What is Real?
If I watch television today (I do this less and less) I get bewildered. Viewing programming like the news, I see and hear about a world full of murder and mayhem. Then I Read More
Ready to Start a Movement?
A young school psychologist for the school where I worked once defined a leader as a person who takes people where they want to go. That description has always fascinated me. Read More
Thanks For Joining In
“How is it that people kill in the name of the God of life, wage war in the name of the God of peace, hate in the name of Read More
‘Love is Blind. Obedience Shouldn’t Be.’ – National Catholic Reporter
Many people have told me they never really considered staying inside and working to change the church (or any other unjust structure) rather than depart in despair. I hope we Read More