This Lenten Season at Church of the Good Shepherd, UCC, we will be focusing on “Belonging.”  Pastor Ken Wilson, one of the co-pastors of Blue Ocean Faith in Ann Arbor, writes in his book, A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor’s Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender, “The question of…

“I don’t take the Bible literally but I do take it seriously.” –said many a progressive Christian Boy, if I got a dime for every time I heard a progressive Christian say the above quote, I would have paid off my seminary education 10 years sooner. Truthfully, I have said this myself. Progressive Christians, for…

Last week, I was driving with my 9 year old on I-94 here in Michigan. We were close to Kalamazoo when a pickup started to pass us. Instead of passing completely, the pickup slowed when the passenger side window was even with me. When I glanced to my left, the white man in the passenger side…