In 1969 there was a Broadway play “in which two male homosexuals make open love onstage…” The performance beat the charge of obscenity because while the two were thus engaged they talked about Vietnam. The play met the then litmus test of “’some redeeming social value” (The World Book Year Book 1970, pp. 55-56). Continue reading
A War of Words
Do you consciously say “chairwoman” or “spokeswoman?” How about making sure you refer to him or her and always having to follow up with he and she? You could resort to what Anthony Burgess does in his book 1985. He uses “heesh” instead of he/she (162). To such lengths we will go to prove we’re really not sexist that we will prove we are stupid. Continue reading
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You’re not listening to me
So says the parent to the child, spouse to spouse, and pastor to people. It can be said in anger but more often than not it’s in heartbreak. Continue reading
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Did you hear the one about…?
You know that joke about the guy threatened by flood waters who spurned offers from the truck, the boat, and the helicopter to take him to safety because he had prayed to God and God would save him? I fear the joke is on us. Continue reading
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Momma We’re Crazy
“Mama He’s Crazy” is a song released by the Judds 30 years ago. Today we can surely sing “Momma we’re crazy.” At least those bright lights are crazy who have opened the way for women in combat. To paraphrase General Patton, or at least the movie, no one ever preserved their country by making their women die for it. They preserved it by making sure the battle never got to home and hearth. Continue reading
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Why the Fuss Over Modern Family and The New Normal?
So what’s the big deal about featuring a happy gay couple as part of a modern, normal family? I’m not asking what’s the big deal with you but with me. Continue reading
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Is Living Together “just another sin”?
In light of what the LCMS Catechism says about the office of the keys, I think every lay person has a right to know whether their pastor knowingly communes those living together, i.e. committing fornication. Here’s what the LCMS says she confesses about the Office of the Keys: Continue reading
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Mathematics, Medicine, and Theology
Don’t blame me for being bad at math; do blame me for being bad at theology. Continue reading
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Beyond Race
In 1989 tennis player Michael Chang won the French Open. The crowd cheered the Chinese-American player until…. Continue reading
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Getting Your Head Around It
I’m not sure we ought to be able to get our head around a person killing others at random and then killing himself. Mad dogs are mad. Fallen humans are fallen and there is no bottom to which they can fall other than hell. And that bottom is in the next life not this one. Neither should we think this is the farthest anyone has ever fallen. In 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan a man blew up a school killing 38 elementary school children. Continue reading
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