Football, the Myers-Briggs and Jesus

In recent years, the Goose Creek High School varsity football team, a school located in an adjoining county, near Charleston, has become dominant in South Carolina high school football competition. Among the largest-schools-in-the-state classification, Goose Creek was...

Thanksgiving

It appears that there are at least two different kinds of people in yours or mine or anyone’s life. Including ourselves. There are those who are thankful for who they are and what they have. While others are, by contrast, those who tend to be bitter and/or...

zenhabit

I don’t know where I came across this guy’s ruminations. His name is Leo Babauta, and on the occasion of his 38th birthday he wrote an equal number of aphorisms meant for his children. I thought, when I first read them, that I would occasionally pass some...

Resilient Children

I recently conducted an unusual memorial service. My pastor was asked to do it, but for whatever reason couldn’t. So he asked me to pinch-hit for him, as I am one of several ordained ministers among the membership of the Circular Congregational Church here in...

Rape, Abortion, Theology and Ethics

When Richard Mourdock, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Indiana, recently claimed that the birth of a human life, even when conceived by rape, was the will of God, he was as pretentiously sincere in his religious conviction as he was care-less, if not...