I saw Jesus under a bridge

So yesterday, I went out with the Hartford homeless outreach team, which included my old friend Dave “Big Dave Vega” Duverger, and my new 82nd Airborne Ranger friend, Carlos Martinez, who served in Vietnam about the same time as did my father. Things were unusually busy, but in addition to climbing beneath bridges, we were …

Good morning! To start your week off…

Thanks, Ray, for sharing this. I was hoping for even more cowbell, but…

Trump’s one big idea

I stole this idea from Fred Clark at Slacktivist. Here: Read the original. Through all the posturing and insults and Twitter-pouts, Trump’s message boils down to: Some people are legitimate Americans and other people — regardless of citizenship — are illegitimate and not really real Americans at all. And that, sports fans, is precisely what has made …

Editing God

And thanks, Cynical, for the graphic.

Nothing to see here (from “Leprosy,” by Rachel G. Hackenberg)

Stay away, God. There is no sin here that you have not seen and it is embarrassing to have you look. Read the rest here. And thank you, Bro. Eric, for putting me on to this wonderful writer.

A course correction

So I’m still reading my Bible every day (you, too, Jac?) in an attempt to read the entire thing straight through this year. I made three New Year’s resolutions, and this is the only one I’ve kept. The book of Esther was nice (did you know it took Esther an entire year to learn the ways …

Baby Jesus is crying, Rev. Lotz

Evoking Big Angry God, the Rev. Anne Graham Lotz (Billy’s daughter) said in a recent interview that terrorist attacks and weird weather patterns are a result of God’s wrath because we are slackers and sinners and people get to pick their own bathrooms, and because of that, America is imploding. Lotz said in the interview …

In last week’s reading of the Hebrew scriptures…

…I came across one of my favorite passages, the throw-down between Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the goddess Asherah — or, more accurately, the throw-down between God, and Baal and Asherah. Baal is a continual annoyance and worse for the early kingdoms, and the Israelites are continually warned away …

Whoosh! And around the bend (forever) goes Glenn Beck

Bloviating Bloviator Glenn Beck says that God gathered Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia home as a wake-up call so that Sen. Ted Cruz…well, I can’t even finish that sentence. You can learn more here. And thanks, Amanda, for the link.

In last week’s reading of the Hebrew scriptures…

(As a reminder, I, the fundamentalist with Mad Bible Skills, have started re-reading the Bible, from Gen. 1, using a guide I loaded onto my phone. Obviously, people read the Bible and find different things. Here’s what I found last week:) Moses was continually being told by God to rein in the Israelites, who couldn’t seem to …