Thursday, July 28, 2016

A Revolutionary Moment

Can we elect Hillary Clinton our nation’s first woman president?  Yes, we can!  Because we already elected our greatest president, Barack Obama.  Because a morally courageous Independent, Bernie Sanders, challenged the Democrats to become the revolutionary voice of ‘We the People’.  Will we continue to govern ourselves in the spirit of our Constitution?  Yes, we will!

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

You're what?

I really appreciate Jim Gaffigan's show about his "calling".  It provides a much better explanation of what a calling might be like than I have ever been able to express.  On August 29, 1971 the zeitgeist opened for me an opportunity to explain my calling through "The Frustrated Jesus: A Call for Christian Revolution".  Since that day I have tried to be true to my calling, even though such a statement may puzzle those who know me best. The truth is that I have never been more in love, more confident in love's power to make people happy, than I was that day.

Sunday, May 01, 2016

#Lovelution!


Six weeks to the day after Mary and I wed, I delivered my first sermon: The Frustrated Jesus: A Call for Christian Revolution.  I'm sharing it now as a way of explaining why I am passionately committed to Senator Bernie Sanders' political revolution.

Revolution (as almost everything) means many things.  The various meanings are derived from the context of each, and the similarity between Sanders' and mine is what struck the chord capable of reviving me from dormancy.

Among changes I would make to the original text would be not using the term 'Christian'.  First, I no longer identify as a Christian.  Neither did Jesus.  I agree with Jesus that God is Love, and so today I would call instead for a loving revolution: #Lovelution!

Senator Sanders is the only candidate who speaks of the role of morality in democracy, and it is from that perspective that I hope to make my contribution to the cause.  We the People can choose a different way, a better way, a more loving way.

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin