It is a common response to tragedy. “My thoughts and prayers are with you”. We say it to people we know and love when their loved ones die or when they are facing surgery or some other difficult situation. It has become an all too familiar refrain from politicians after mass shootings. And since we’ve…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho October 18, 2015 Ruth 1:1-17 This story, we’re told, takes place during the time of the Judges. A famine in the land caused Naomi and her family to leave the Promised Land and go back across the river to Moab, modern day Jordan. Her husband,…
Governor Mike Huckabee got himself in a heap of trouble after the shootings in Connecticut when he said this: “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6…
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