The Unbroken Coffee Cup – Postscript to Broken Coffee Cup Series This posting is a postscript to the Broken Coffee Cup Series. And here, the featured photo is the green-rimmed coffee cup, unbroken, intact, and whole, the twin of the broken blue cup, both given to me as gifts at the same time...
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 3 – Politics, Idolatry, Pandemic, Second Great Commandment, Theology Mantras. As I began to prepare to compose and write this last part of the Broken Coffee Cup series - now on the spiritually damaging and distorting effects upon the congregation of the deepening and...
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 2 – I Did Not Leave My Friends This series continues to be difficult to write, being “professional” but, at the same time now, conveying emotional and spiritually deep burdens and concerns. For now, I am trying to reply to or answer – as best as they can be...
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 1 – A Year & a Half Since I Withdrew My Membership As a writer, I use my website for many purposes. I write for numerous reasons, on multiple different issues and subjects, and in a variety of genres. And, besides for myself, I write only for one other...
Scripture: Mark 10:13-16 Thursday, May 26, 2022 Dear Pastor Xxxxx, As your recent words on Facebook expressed, I also share an almost stupefying despair and torment and omnidirectional anger concerning the deaths of the nineteen children systematically murdered one by one in their classroom along...
In June 2021, a close friend and I got together twice, once for morning coffee, once for lunch. The times together with this friend were always enjoyable, but until these two meetings, our times with each other had been suspended for more than a year by the pandemic. During our times together, we...
Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of September...
Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of September...