Month: May 2017

  • Chaplain’s Corner: June is Pride Month

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    The Department of Defense recognizes June as Pride Month. The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. Since then our country has made lots of progress. So:

  • Two Good Reasons to Remember Ascension Day

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    Today is a Ascension Day. Most of the time, churches will push the observance to the following Sunday, so more people have a chance to attend. Why should Ascension Day matter to you? 1. If you have a German background you would be pleased to learn that Ascension Day doubles as Father’s Day. Also it…

  • Three major holidays that you should not miss this week

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    Some weeks in the life of the church look so unassuming. What could possibly be special about this week? Well, as pastor I am obliged to give you three perspectives on the next few days that you may otherwise have missed: The window named “Ascension” at St. John’s United Church of Christ Thursday, May 25,…

  • Trump Far Less Religious Than Obama in His Speech to The Muslim World

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    In 2009 President Obama received mixed reviews for his famous Cairo speech. Now Donald Trump’s Riyadh Speech is in the books. The 45th president seems to care much less about religious matters than his predecessor. Here is a comparison of their word count when it comes to key spiritual issues: Obama uses religious verbiage almost…

  • Thou Shalt Not Impose Your Faith on Anyone

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    Dr. James Emery White warns against “The Great Danger of Orthodoxy”. Basically the point he is making is that Christians are too concerned with their focus on the presumable “right believes”. Instead he proposes a balance of Orthodoxy (believing the right thing) and Orthopraxy (doing the right thing). Now, let me be clear: I claim…