I moved to the town of Blue Ridge, TX just before I turned 12 years old back in the late winter of 1984. It didn't take long for the secretary of the First Baptist Church (FBC) of Blue Ridge to knock on our door to invite us to come to the church. A few months …
Category: Theological reflections
Full blown fascism
Back when Donald Trump entered his first race as a presidential candidate, it was clear to many of us what kind of presidential administration he would have were he to inexplicably win the election. During that campaign I had begun work on my Master's thesis which would later become my first book and in the …
Right response, I don’t think so Joel
Refuting Joel Webbon's virtue of hatred.
Grab your pruners, we’re overwhelmed by brambles
The Trance Regime has been in place for just over 100 awful days now. The current felonious occupant of the presidential mansion has seen his approval ratings drop to historic lows as the fallout begins from the regime's disastrous economic policies. The unimaginably cruel immigration policies, the brainchild of arch-xenophobe Stephen Miller, are finally starting …
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Creation care and honoring Pope Francis
"Give us this day our daily bread." - Jesus of Nazareth "But let justice roll down like water and righteousness from an ever-flowing stream." The prophet Amos Creation care is a theological imperative because we can not love our neighbors, either next door or across the globe, by polluting the biosphere. Jesus' prayer for enough …
Save us!
The story of the tortoise and the hare turns the idea of a race completely on its head. The speedy hare should of course finish first, but shockingly does not, because the slow and steady tortoise maintains focus and triumphs over the arrogant and haughty hare. In like fashion, the four Gospel accounts of Jesus' …
A Lament for today
Yesterday's sermon at the church I recently started to attend was about lament and several verses from different psalms were read. One thing that the pastor said that struck me was something she had recently read about hope and lament -- our hope can only go as high as our lamentations go deep. She went …
A bit about DEI and the Bible
MAGA world collectively has been having a fit over DEI -- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As I studied the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership document, the sections I read were rife with anti-DEI language and plans to remove all vestiges of DEI from the federal government. Texas governor Greg Abbott, a MAGA fanboy who is …
Epiphany
Matthew's gospel narrative tells of wise men from the East who went to Jerusalem seeking the the infant Jesus whom they had come to pay homage. In the Christian tradition, this event, the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem to pay homage to the Christ child and bestow gifts upon him, is seen as the …
Sorry Rick, Jesus did not preach “capitalism”
Last week a caller named Rick called in to Tell Me Everything to take me, Desimber Rose, and host John Fugelsang to task. He started by intimating that my status as a Marine Corps veteran was false with a somewhat incoherent non sequitur about the tumble rate of rounds fired from weapons. I don't happen …
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The Tattooed Theologian 