You are now 250 years old. May you survive for another 250 or more years. When I listen to news, I feel a need to write about our current situation. I feel it is my responsibility to write, calling anyone who reads to action. However, it takes so much energy to write and revise, then […]
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Sunday, 21 June
Today for the communion anthem, the choir sang a hymn, “Listen Deeply” by Fritz Fritschel, set to music by David Del Rocco. I kept a copy of the day’s bulletin which included the text of the hymn. Afterwards, I spoke to Carol Langner, Fritz’s widow, and asked if she would give mepermission to put it […]
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Protests
On Saturday, 28 March, a massive peaceful protest is planned nationwide. Cities throughout the nation and even smaller towns and counties, are planning location(s) for their protests. Please search for the location of your nearest protest location and try to attend. Why, you may ask, are people protesting? What are people protesting? Each of you […]
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VOTER IDS
I have just listened to a podcast by Joyce Vance entitled “The Pernicious Myth of Voter ID Laws” in which she discusses the problems of these laws with Stacey Abrams. I strongly encourage you to listen to it. It’s available at https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-pernicious-myth-of-voter-id-laws?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=3z0o1p&triedRedirect=true
Thanks be to Minnesotans who are protesting the presence of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Thanks to journalists who are writing, reporting, and motivating fellow Americans to voice their concerns about the flagrant violations of Americans’ basic constitutional rights. Thanks to Americans in numerous places protesting against governmental overreach. Pete Buttigieg recently spoke on YouTube about […]
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Peaceful Resistance
Today (5 Oct. 2025) in church, one of the readings of the scriptures was Habakkuk1:1-4, 2:1-4. My version of the Bible is the King James version, while the version used at church is a more modern English translation, so my writing here at home differs somewhat from what was spoken today. Regardless, I wish to […]
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Democracy vs. Autocracy
I created a post in 2023 which I feel now is critically important for the American electorate to review. The post included excerpts from a guest opinion piece in the New York Times, written by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, professors of government at Harvard, “Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices,” https://www.nytimes.com/ 2023/09/08/opinion /trump-republicans-spain-brazil.html [accessed […]
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Congress, Where Are You?
In the midst of the furor over the president’s tariffs, Nicolle Wallace had couple of people on her MSNBC program, Deadline: White House, in which one of the guests specifically placed the responsibility of this chaos created by the tariffs upon our “do nothing” Congress. I propose you all write your representatives in the […]
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Threat to Democracy
Inside accomplices threaten democracy.
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Election 2024 (#2)
Why Vote?
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