Previous Articles
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
No, Your Body Isn't Your Own
Frozen By Fright
Last Suppers
Resending Resentment
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