The GOP…Yuck!

By Harold W. Anderson, Ph.D., M.Div., LMFT Ok, I have to say it; I intensely dislike the GOP.  This is not to say that I dislike people who are Republicans, but I really loath the GOP.  In my mind, the GOP is represented today by blood-thirsty fascists like Ron DeSantis, who is threatening to shootContinue reading “The GOP…Yuck!”

Plucking Chickens: Democracy or Fascism?

If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, people are less likely to notice. “We do not argue with those who disagree with us; we destroy them.” Benito Mussolini As I think about recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and ponder the future, I must register alarm.  And when I thinkContinue reading “Plucking Chickens: Democracy or Fascism?”

Are We Going to Die?

Pictured is a postage stamp that recalls the tense standoff between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. When I was a child, we lived close to the-now-defunct Gowen Field, a strategic airbase near Boise, Idaho that, I was told, was one of the main targets for nuclearContinue reading “Are We Going to Die?”

Red-Letter Christians and the Prophetic Imagination

The basis of spiritual community is truth; the basis of emotional community is desire. The essence of spiritual community is light. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together “The red letters are the words of Jesus.” Told to me by my mother as a child When I was a young child, our church had a contest.  The firstContinue reading “Red-Letter Christians and the Prophetic Imagination”