Helpless Hopelessness is Disempowering: And the difference between hope and optimism

I realized after fourteen months of dumbfounded mainly-silence that I had succumbed to hopelessness about the US, the country that I love and that it was time to snap out of it. There are three problems with hopelessness. One: it closes its eyes to reasons for hope; therefore, in the name of realism it misses

Helpless Hopelessness is Disempowering: And the difference between hope and optimism

Why the ‘Believers Churches’ Have Not Been Able to Stop Our Descent into Authoritarian Reactionary Christianity

Note: A slightly longer version of this talk was presented on Friday night, 19 September, at a conference in Hamburg, Germany called the Entscheidungschristentum (“Decision Christianity”) Conference. The title in the German program was: “Believers Churches als Auslaufmodell ? – Eine amerikanische Perspektive,” which translates as “Believers Churches as an Obsolete Model? An American Perspective.” INTRODUCTION Greetings

Why the ‘Believers Churches’ Have Not Been Able to Stop Our Descent into Authoritarian Reactionary Christianity

A Personal Update

Don’t bury the lede, they say, and so I won’t. Now 63 years old, I write this personal update from the north Cotswolds in England, where we now live part of the year, where I have joined the Church of England, and where I am apprenticing with diocesan leaders on a path toward (non-stipended, very

A Personal Update

Winston Churchill on Appeasement: In Honor and in Defense of Ukraine

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich on September 29, 1938 for a last-ditch peace conference with Adolf Hitler. The issue was Hitler’s demand for the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia as the price for Germany not invading. With the Czech government refused admittance to the conference room within which its survival was being debated, British

Winston Churchill on Appeasement: In Honor and in Defense of Ukraine

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