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During my last year of seminary Mel Gibson’s movie the Passion of the Christ was released about this time of year, right around Holy Week. I had read reviews and I knew I probably wouldn’t like it, but I felt if I were going to critique its theology, it wouldRead More →

Mary Robert and I received the J. Allen Pope Reaching Out award this past Saturday evening. The award is given by AQUA, an organization comprised of the various organizations and agencies that serve the gay, lesbian and transgendered community in Mobile. It was a bigger deal than I thought; incredibleRead More →

I don’t watch a lot of television; just sporting events, Jon Stewart on the Daily Show when I can catch him, and Food T.V. I’ve given up on real journalism. It’s all entertainment sound-bites now; and don’t even get me started on the so-called reality shows. But lately I’ve beenRead More →

Thou hast neither youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both from Eliot’s Gerontion I’ve never been one to fast during Lent. I remember once or twice I gave up chocolate, or potato chips, but that was no big deal, just a fairly simpleRead More →

I walked out the front door this morning, Ash Wednesday, to last night’s flotsam: strings of broken beads, a half eaten funnel cake just there in the middle of the street, cast off paper products everywhere, tottering in the morning breeze; an askew port-o-let down on a dead corner, thatRead More →