Following are my previously published articles. Please click on a title to view that particular piece. (Since these were written over the course of the last several years, some of them will refer to events long past!) Click on the first link for an index of subjects rather than titles.

Index by Subjects

Swallowed Up By Fear and Loathing

Guiding Lightly

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

The Downfall of Saul

Wake Up Screaming 

Blood Will Tell 

Idol Hands 

Talking to Ghosts 

Looking Beyond the Ends of Our Noses

On the Up and Up or Down and Down? 

Chopping Away at Paganism 

Who Is Responsible?

Going to the Dogs 

Childish Christians 

Bound or Bound for the Promised Land?

Brother, Where Art Thou?

Defense Strategies

Being Upfront about Backbiting

Too Close for Comfort?

The Lead That Weighs Us Down

Scared Rabbits

Mob Mentality: When Godliness Gets Crowded Out

Bargaining with God

A Plague on All Our Houses

Weak As a Kitten, Strong As a Lion

The Powers that Flee

Euphemisms and Other Evasions

Power Points

Coming Down from the Mountain

The Canaries in Our Coal Mine

A Roundabout Way of Looking at Things

Timidity Vs. Temerity

The Midlife Chrysalis

What Do We Think We Are Selling?

The Messiness of Life

Faith or Fatalism?

Prosperous or Pressed and Perplexed?

Resisting Our Raising

Monuments to Stonewalling

The Myth of the Noble Savage

The Irrationality of Anti-Semitism

The "God Isn't Good Enough" Complaint

Are We Better Robbers than Samaritans?

Is Life a Trick or a Trip?

God's Peculiar Timing

Martha, Mary, or Both?

Changing Your Mind

Phony Prophets and Mendacious Ministers

Putting Too Much Faith in Faith

Truth, Justice, and the American Naysayers

God Unemployed

The Rough Road to Emmaus

Delight or De Slight?

Cat on a Hot Styrofoam Roof: The Illusion of Security

It Takes Conviction to Make Conviction

Raising the Dead

We Offend All

Is Compromise a Dirty Word?

The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

Hobbled by a Hobson's Choice?

Blasphemy or Bluster?

Speak of the Devil

The Plot of Your Life

Impressing God

The Ties That Bind

Thumbs Down on the Donald

Sudden Death Undertime

When Sparrows Fall

Of God and Generals

The Judas Factor

Contending with Conscience

A Steely Hope

Hogs Running Amuck

Status and the Status Quo

Starring in Your Own Story

Spoiled Rotten

Grapes and Grace

Self-Consciousness: Playing to Our Audience

Never Say Die: Depression and Suicide

Braking for the Sabbath

Here Is the Church

Relentless in Pursuit of The Good Life

Baptism and the Big Boat

Churches for Atheists?

Lessons from a Comatose Computer

The Mystery of Iniquity

Faking Bad

Trust: Skating on Thin Ice

The Prodigal's Rerun

Sloth or Slacking?

Right or Righteous?

The Way of the Cross

The Slave Trade

Aging Ungracefully

Our Gilt-Free Other Gods

A Higher Psychiatry?

Dogged about Dogma

Making Your Voice Heard

Hypocrisy Is a Killer

Whining Or Dining

Of Money and Meltdowns

What is Real Life--Really?

The Smell of Success

Worrying Ourselves Sick

Forgiving the Unforgivable

Great Expectations: Lessons from Loxley

The Nature of the Beast

Wings, Wind, and Wildfire: the Holy Spirit

A Rude Welcome: Notions on the Nativity

Defaulting to the Devil

What Did Jesus Do?

It Just Isn't Fair!

Gluttons for Punishment

Bringing Your Ego to Heel

Love is More than a Fuzzy Feeling

High Resolution: the Focused Life

Haven't Got a Prayer?

Seeing the Light: Miracle or Mirage?

Flights about Angels

Heaven Can't Wait

Working Out Salvation

Denial Is Not a River in Egypt

Hell to Pay

Baby, It's Cold Outside