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So, apparently this is my 600th blog entry. Yikes. That’s a whompin’ load ‘o writing. My blog’s title, of course, is a riff on the old EF Hutton ads that ran during the 70s and 80s. If you watched TV back then, you couldn’t help but see these ubiquitous commercials. Here’s one version… They repeated […]
Read MoreNOTE FROM EF:this entry has been expanded/updated over the years….EF I’m pleased to announce that my song “Sitting In the Trade Hall (11.22.63)” (1) is now available on iTunes as a single. iTunes link here. It’s a song I wrote some years ago, from the perspective of adults who lived in Dallas at the time […]
Read MoreAs a Methodist preacher, I’ve always been humbled to recall that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was written, in part, to Methodist bishops. They weren’t the only recipients, of course. The letter was a response to previous statements from Alabama-area clergy of several Christian denominations. But at least two of […]
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Update 12.30.13: Written in September…still true today….EF “Sitting back trying to recapture, a little of the glory of, well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of…glory days” — Bruce Springsteen The Dallas Cowboys are losers. I don’t mean that pejoratively. I mean it statistically. Many of us grew up […]
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The Sisyphus of White Rock Lake Here’s a picture from today’s bike ride around White Rock Lake. For those unfamiliar, it’s up on the dam, looking south toward the spillway. There’s about a 60 foot grassy drop off to the right, and you can see a bit of the lake to the left. […]
Read MoreAs she often does my colleague, Rev. Christy Thomas has a blog well worth your time today. Her title is “Incarnational Theology and Corrective Rape.” As you might surmise, it’s a hard read. Like Christy, I invite you to read the New York Times article that inspired her. It talks about the horrific practice in […]
Read MoreSeveral online friends sent this essay to me this week: Religious Progressives Predicted To Outnumber Conservatives, Survey Finds It’s well worth the read, and cites data that comes from the Public Religion Research Institute. A few standout quotes: “With each generation, the popularity of religious conservatism has declined. Forty-seven percent of the Silent Generation (ages […]
Read MoreFor ten years, Dennise and I have lived with the memory of one of the most terrifying journeys we ever took. It was a pre-GPS navigation world. It was a pre-digital-photography world too. But since we have both now, we recreated this journey the other day, such that we now have pictures to tell the […]
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