Irreverent: Musings on Faith, Love, Life and Politics

Particularly now.  At least I wasn't presiding. Slipped in a little late, was one of the first ones out the door. I have never really come to terms with Good Friday.  To be clearer - it's...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2024/03/being-jewish-convert-to-christianity-on.html

      Come down, O Love divine, seek thou this soul of mine, and visit it with thine own ardor glowing; O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, thy holy flame...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2022/07/love-interrupted.html

  There's a storage box in my living room. Most of the time, I forget it's there. Inside the box, normally used for photos and documents you think might be important some day, are affidavits...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-i-never-asked-my-grandma.html

  There were so many people at the gym this morning.  Older folks, married couples, kids, teenagers crowding near the weight racks  chatting by the circuit machines, stretching and planki...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2022/01/bare-ruined-choirs.html

 On my way back from the hair salon, I stopped off to see the foxes in the enclosure.  One looks like a white-muzzled senior, the other slightly younger, stands near the front of the cage. He...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2019/10/at-worlds-end.html

In the world of American Catholic sisters, there are challenges aplenty, including coping with diminishing numbers, disposing of homes that are now way too big for them, and in some cases, findin...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2019/07/undaunted-organized-and-taking-long.html

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/doors-rachel-held-evans-wedged-open

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2019/05/remembering-rachel-held-evans.html

Yes, I thought grimly as I drove home. Yes. If I/we could, let's be honest, we could come for your guns. I'd like to regulate the sale and possession of handguns, so that parents don't come...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2019/03/our-bloodstained-american-constitution.html

https://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/a-review-of-s-top-faith-stories/article_abef3cbe-0ad3-11e9-9ffd-4bf287f97ce5.html

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/12/who-cares-about-global-faith-stories-uh.html

This morning I went to the church where I have worshipped and worked on and off for the past twenty plus years, and I was lost.  Not physically lost, of course. The contours of the sanctuary ...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/10/please-dont-make-me-choose.html

If your pastor isn't talking about the opioid addiction crisis - ask them why not. https://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/faith-groups-can-play-a-role-in-fighting-addiction/article_...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/09/who-is-affected-by-opioid-crisis-person.html

Less than half-way through Community Day, the skies opened (actually, they re-opened). I knew it was still happening, though, because I heard the Glenmoore Fire Company sirens. The Fire Company...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/09/our-little-town.html

There are few subjects that divide Americans today, and Christians in particular, as the way we determine what is true, and what is not. http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/like-p...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-is-truth-asked-jesting-pilate.html

It wasn't until I got home, in the privacy of my living room, flooded with the light of early spring, that the tears came. Though it was conceived in response to a tragedy, the rally in front ...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2018/03/for-jonathan-with-love-always.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/culture-wars-come-to-downingtown-20170503.html

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2017/05/when-extreme-positions-win-we-all-lose.html

After a warmer than normal February and a March that featured the only substantial snow of the winter, we have been gradually working our way towards spring in southeastern Pennsylvania. Today...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2017/04/sunday-bloody-sunday.html

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/how-will-the-amish-vote-experts-weigh-in/article_a1bb714a-a2c5-11e6-bbd4-0f5706d6a7af.html

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-did-republicans-try-to-court-amish.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20161004_Commentary__10_years_after_killings__Amish_legacy_of_forgiveness_endures.html

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-amish-legacy-of-forgiveness-endures.html

http://religionnews.com/2016/09/30/10-years-after-amish-schoolhouse-killing-the-work-of-grieving-remains/

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/10/ten-years-after-nickel-mines-shootings.html

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/child-sexual-abuse-is-pa-pro-child-or-pro-predator/article_937c4c24-526d-11e6-a22b-2bb787a6a44f.html#comments

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-journalist-reflects-on-why-sex-abuse.html

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/pa-state-rep-says-its-not-over-after-senate-removes-statute-limitations

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/07/pa-state-representative-mark-rozzis-je.html

Two African American men shot and killed at the hands of police in cold blood on the streets of Baton Rouge and St. Paul. Five police officers murdered by snipers near the end of a peaceful pro...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/07/our-bipolar-racial-narratives-are.html

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/hanging-together-without-one-another-we-re-lost/article_f9744c32-34b5-11e6-a748-eba77e92c6e5.html#comments #Orlando  #gayrights #guncontrol 

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/06/after-orlando-when-narratives-compete.html

This past week, along with many if not most of you, I have struggled to take in the horror of the  shootings of 49 mostly young, mostly queer men and women of color by an extremist, a  s...

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/06/think-jo-coxs-death-doesnt-matter-to.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160522_Commentary__Mom_s_lesson_from_the_college_search.html

http://nocheapshots.blogspot.com/2016/05/our-family-went-through-college.html