THE WEANING OF JIMMY CARTER
Jimmy Carter was a Baptist. I once was, too. So I know something about him you might not.
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).
Jimmy Carter was a Baptist. I once was, too. So I know something about him you might not.
Don’t read Plato’s Republic. It will scared the bejesus out of you.
All I want for Christmas is peace on earth. And if that’s too much to ask, I’ll settle for peace in the Middle East.
I stumbled on Shepherdstown 50 years ago this week.
Creationists wield the biblical story of creation to oppose the exclusive teaching of evolution in American public schools.
Many of you will be at my book launch this afternoon. Most won’t. Many of you live a long ways from Shepherdstown
Some of you “corrected” me for what I said in last Sunday’s post. It wasn’t for my praise of education.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States. There has always been.
We are many. They are more. I don’t like them. They laugh. We mourn.
I expect Harris to win. But if she doesn’t, what then?
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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