Past Random Thoughts
11.15.2024 Love Will Win. Finding Hope in Troubled Times
11.8.2024 Love Above Politics
11.1.2024 St Francis’ Kiss: Finding Humanity in Those We Fear
10.25.2024 What the Great Pumpkin Teaches Us About Faith, Doubt, and Love
10.18.2024 Is Kindness the True Measure of Genius?
10.11.2024 The Christianity I Missed
10.4.2024 Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down
9.27.2024 Reject Lies and Embrace Compassion
9.20.2024 Get High on Helping
9.13.2024 A Stutterer’s Story: Finding His Voice and Inspiring Us
9.6.2024 The Unexpected Lesson of Humility from Hollywood
8.30.2024 Choosing Compassion: Lessons from Gus Walz’s Moment
8.23.2024 From Denied to Honored: Mary Jean Walls-Price and Missouri State University
8.16.2024 How Are You?
8.9.2024 What Does Your Car Say About You?
8.2.2024 Olympic Outrage
7.26.2024 Did God Save Donald Trump?
7.19.2024 Will We Heed the Call for Unity?
7.12.2024 Changing Your Mind is a Superpower
7.5.2024 There’s a Soggy Stars and Stripes in the Oval Office
6.28.2024 The Good Fruit of Pride Month
6.21.2024 Help Restore Our Space
6.14.2024 A Building in Need
6.7.2024 A Cup of Compassion
5.31.2024 How Important is Kindness to You?
5.24.2024 Let’s Not Forget
5.17.2024 What Can We Learn from Harrison Butker’s Commencement Speech?
5.10.2024 I Believe That Children Are Our Future
5.3.2024 Do We Need a Gag Order?
4.26.2024 What Makes a Strong Man?
4.19.2024 A Wheel of Misfortune
4.12.2024 Disappointing - not failure - and why Pastor Phillip didn’t write Random Thoughts this week
4.5.2024 Do I Want To Be Called A Christian Anymore?
3.29.2024 It’s Easter. Stop the Fighting.
3.22.2024 The Best Supporting Actor Oscar Goes to the Donkey
3.15.2024 Prepositions Are Good Words to End Sentences With
3.8.2024 What Are Biblical Values?
3.1.2024 It’s March: Let’s March to Peace
2.23.2024 Let’s Get Together: Defusing Divisiveness
2.16.2024 From Celebration to Mourning
2.9.2024 The Super Bowl of Conspiracy Theories
2.2.2024 How Do You See Travis n Taylor - TnT
1.26.2024 A Person of Few Words
1.19.2024 Red Flags of Spiritual Abuse
1.12.2024 A Friend on National Pothole Day
1.5.2024 “Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple…Open the Door…”
12.29.2023 Are You Ready for 2024?
12.22.2023 The Ghosts of Christians Past
12.15.2023 Let’s Have a Contemplative Christmas
12.8.2023 All Religions Wish Us Peace
12.1.2023 Are You Living An Authentic Life?
11.24.2023 Happy Thanksgiving Charlie Brown and Franklin
11.17.2023 Congressional Fight Club
11.10.2023 Lonely No More
11.3.2023 A Holy Heretic
10.27.2023 Why I Celebrate Halloween
10.20.2023 Pause, Breathe, Repair the Universe - Then Proceed
10.13.2023 Pursuing Peace in the Mideast
10.06.2023 Is Jesus Too Liberal?
09.29.2023 The Taylor Swift Effect
09.22.2023 Love Your Town
09.15.2023 Thoughts on Theology Beer Camp
09.08.2023 “Fight For Your Right to Party” Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Means
09.01.2023 Would Jesus Object To Us Using His Songs
08.25.2023 Stress and Fire in the Paradise of the Pacific
08.18.2023 Does Christianity Have a Branding Problem?
08.11.2023 Don’t You Care?
08.04.2023 There Is A More Important Light Bulb
07.28.2023 Jesus is Our Senior Executive of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
07.21.2023 Barbie or Oppenheimer?
07.14.2023 Learning How Not to Read the Bible from Charles Manson
07.07.2023 Pucker Up
06.30.2023 What Does It Mean to Love America?
06.23.2023 The Healing Power of Garth Brooks
06.16.2023 Being a Good Father Means Rethinking Masculinity
06.09.2023 Jewish Tradition Honors Non-Binary People!
06.02.2023 The Reason Behind LGBTQ+ Opposition
05.26.2023 The 1990s - The Beginning of Christianity’s Decline
05.19.2023 Hell of a Lot to Think About
05.12.2023 Remember Snoopy & Woodstock This Mother’s Day
05.05.2023 Why Are We So Lonely?
04.28.2023 Get Off Your Phone And Work Out!
04.21.2023 Fear and Guns
04.14.2023 Changed By Love
04.07.2023 Let’s Turn Holy Week Back to Jesus
03.31.2023 School, The Bible and Penises
03.24.2023 Yes, Racism Exists in Springfield
03.17.2023 What I Learned from an Oscar Winner
03.10.2023 Quit Using the Bible to Oppress
03.03.2023 Women Are Being Silenced
02.24.2023 Baptism: What Does It Mean To You?
02.17.2023 Happy Birthday to the Venues
02.10.2023 So, Who is Chris Roberds?
02.03.2023 We Need An Honest History
01.27.2023 Welcome Back Rev Dev
01.20.2023 Maybe It’s Time To Break Up With Your Family
01.13.2023 Are You A Quiet Quiter?
01.06.2023 What Will I Be In 2023?