Category: Christianity

Dear Democrats and liberals

    Dear editor:   My friend sent this to me and I thought it was a perfect explanation of the support for Donald Trump. “Dear Democrats and liberals: “I’ve noticed that a lot of you aren’t graciously accepting the fact that your candidate lost. In fact you seem to be writing and posting more …

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A Letter from Bishop Benfield

We Are to Plant Christian Guideposts   Given the election results that came in through the night, it is now apparent that the United States is traveling on a highway that is yet to be mapped. For many of us, the old, familiar guideposts of the Christian ethical life, including peace, patience, kindness, generosity, and …

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The evil curse was ended

A sermon preached by Larry Benfield, the bishop of Arkansas, on November 6, 2016, at St. Luke’s Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas.   This year’s church calendar is off by about one day, sort of like our internal time clocks are off by about an hour this morning. Halloween came on its appointed day, Monday, …

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Not running to be a god

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump By Roger O. Friedland, October 26, 2016   What does the love of Jesus have to do with Trump? How to explain his overwhelming support from evangelical voters, who—for more than three decades—have formed the bastion of the Christian right? According to a Pew …

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Why I’m voting for Hillary

I have heard, on more than one occasion, progressives postulate that Hillary Clinton is a trigger-happy, corporate shill who will not take America forward.  Some of these folks are actually considering voting for Donald Trump, hoping that the dark days of his presidency will bring about a progressive awakening to forever end the stranglehold a …

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Thank you!

  Dear editor, We the People are about to roll the dice and elect our next president.  Just enough time left to dash off a few well-deserved thank you notes… So first of all, a great big thank you to our ever-vigilant tea parties, and to their patron saints the Brothers Koch, for breathing new life into the …

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2020 is already under way

Growing Cotton in Iowa The Economist, Oct 15th 2016   AS THE election of 2016 lurches to an unmourned end, it feels cruel to report that the presidential race of 2020 is already under way. This haste makes sense, at least on the Republican side. If voters on November 8th consign Donald Trump to a …

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