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“Well, what about Thanksgiving?” What about it? It’s contrived, isn’t it?
Randall "Randy" Tremba was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois (1969), a master’s of divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena,California (1973), and a doctor of ministry at Princeton Seminary (1992). He was installed as minister of the Shepherdstown (WV) Presbyterian Church in July 1976. Forty-one years later he retired. In between, he married Paula, became a parent (Jonah, Nathanael, Amanda) and a grandfather, founded the Rumsey Radio Hour (1990), and co-founded the Shepherdstown Good News Paper with Ed Zahniser (May 1979).
“Well, what about Thanksgiving?” What about it? It’s contrived, isn’t it?
And yet, seventy-three million Americans voted for the president. How could they?
I worried Tuesday night. I worried the next day. I worried all week
Now that you’re leaving I will say, I did admire a few things about you.
My longtime friend is a secular Jew, which makes him, I think, a humanist. He hasn’t renounced his Judaic heritage, but he takes it with a grain of salt.
Paula and I drove to Frederick this past Sunday to have lunch with two friends we hadn’t seen for what...
The president tested positive for COVID. I gloated. I told myself not to, but I couldn’t stop.
I read the news. I study the polls. I remember. My stomach’s in knots.
Just when I thought the winds of change were blowing in the right direction, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has to up and die.
On Sunday, September 20, I will stand with fellow citizens at a “Rally for Racial and Economic Justice.”
Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around our world most every Sunday morning.
Read more about the devil’s role in my life in “This Little Light of Mine” under Let Love Arise in the menu bar.

I reached a personal milestone yesterday. Alas, there were no fireworks and no parades.

Soccer is a beautiful game, my sons told me years ago. I couldn’t see what they saw, but I’m beginning to.

I'm a soccer fan but not a fanatic. Alas, the game releases the inner barbarian.

Today is my birthday. I was born in 1947. Let's hear if for the boomers!
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