South Carolina’s Great Notion: Jump in the River and Drown


The politicians are talking about "sharing the pain" and "making tough choices." But as the The State notes in the first installment of a series on the losers in the political game of cutting vital state services, it is the "least of these" who will bear the brunt of South Carolina's morally and fiscally bankrupt … Continue reading South Carolina’s Great Notion: Jump in the River and Drown

A Sermon for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday


Epiphany 2Year ACome and SeeIsaiah 49:1-71 Corinthians 1:1-9John 1:29-42Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure … Continue reading A Sermon for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Words Have Meaning


"Words have meaning," as any Dittohead can tell you, is Rush Limbaugh's favorite rejoinder to the political Left. Ironic, isn't it that so many of his fellow travelers on the Anarchist Highway have suddenly become deconstructionalists, insisting that words are only words, so fraught with nuance and ambiguity they are ultimately devoid of inherent meaning? The Right wing has … Continue reading Words Have Meaning

The Second Sunday After Christmas Day Year A


Jeremiah 31:7-14Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19aMatthew 2:13-15,19-23His head was pounding. In the near darkness, he could just make out the leather sack, filled with the little pebbles of dried sap. He tucked it under a rough camel hair blanket. But he could still smell it. He never was that big on incense. But she loved it and so … Continue reading The Second Sunday After Christmas Day Year A