One of the endearing practices of Filipino's is the Mano Po loosely meaning, "Your hand please (respectfully)". When a person enters a Filipino home those who are younger will request the elder person to lift their hand, fingers down, and the younger will touch the back of the fingers to their forehead. The elder is to say “Kaawaan ka ng Diyos” meaning "God have mercy on you".
Night of the Iguana
Treasured Wisdom
Life is a Crash Course of Becoming
Idealism is Unethical
Biblically Illiterate Evangelicals
Where is God in a Pandemic
A collection of indexed links to poems and writings produced during the corona virus pandemic recognized in the U.S. by early 2020.
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The Deadly Theological Tulip
I was teaching a class titled 'Exodus/Deuteronomy' to a group of students who represented numerous denominations. One of them was a very serious and devout young man. He had been taught the theology of John Calvin represented in the acronym 'tulip'. He was so convinced that he had chosen not to father any children in case they were predetermined for eternal fire.
Good Theology
Southern Christianity
Evangelicals Love their Devil
The Culpability of God for the Human Condition
We Bring Our Self to the Text
As I age I become distinctly aware of how our moral conscience and the totality of all that encompasses the image of God in us; insight, rationality, active redemptive compassion, relational connectedness with all creation (particularly humanity), our creativity and our capacity for keeping promises must be incorporated into our interpretive efforts when reading scripture.