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Jesus said the greatest commandment was to love God with all your being, and the second was to love your self and your neighbor.  Then he gave us a new commandment to love one another as he has loved us.  Everything else scripture offers, everything else we do or say, hangs on these commandments.  Thousands… Read more

I read Gerald Seib’s thoughtful July 23 WSJ essay on how big business has become a political orphan, unable to find a safe harbor in either major party.  For over a century, the Republican Party has been their haven.  But, said Seib, the party’s shift to right wing populism has eroded the stable of Republican… Read more

Roxane Gay wrote a July 17 New York Times piece asking why people are so awful to each other online, suggesting it could be due to the role of loneliness and the insufficiency of cyberspace as an adequate substitute for in person connections.  Heather Cox Richardson followed up with additional questions about the horrible ways… Read more

To my subscribers. Once again I published without my editor’s final proof reading. You would think I’d learn. Anyway, the Is the Church Dying column as posted on the website has been updated to correct stuff, mostly. Mea culpa.

There is a no more dependable perennial than the annual blossoming of angst over the decline and imminent death of the church.  Every denomination grows its own variety, mine is from the Episcopal Church.  Yes, church attendance has been in decline for decades, and it saddens me as much as it does anyone. The perennial… Read more

Where were we?  Oh yeah; the previous column was about metaphorical bubbles, silos and castles that exist in the physical reality of our daily lives, but over the last few decades we’ve also come to live in the virtual reality of cyberspace and cable t.v.  Friend Tom and I have been wondering about the difference… Read more