Divine Line in the Sand

by | Oct 18, 2015 | climate change, freedom, peace, sermon 2015

When people say they don’t believe in God, mostly they mean that there’s no sign of a being up there deciding just how things will go, watching our every move, working out how to punish us for the bad things we do and bless us for the good. I don’t believe in that sort of god either, and I hope you don’t . . .

In Theodore Roosevelt Park

by | May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized

A granite stele with names inscribed of those Americans who prized a Nobel laurel since ’06 stands not high—no obelisk— thus has of four but one face free awaiting marks of mastery in those arts by which we wished most to be saved—novelist, scientist, economist,...