Enough of Putin and COVID and Disney(gay)world. THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US.
A reader contacted me after last Sunday’s post: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? Were you violently attacked?
How do you celebrate Easter in a war zone? What Easter hymns do you sing in a bomb shelter? What prayers do you offer over a mass grave?
Today Christians will march on the Pentagon, flashing water pistols, waving sunflowers, hoisting images of Thich Nhat Hanh.
I’ve put mushrooms on my salads. Now they’re on my mind.
If you need a bit of a digression from all the sobering news these days, here you go.
I knew little about Ukraine before Putin invaded it. Now I know a lot.
One reader said I asked a stupid question last Sunday: Is Putin a Christian? Another reader said I wasn’t qualified to answer it.
Besides being an abominably heartless, ruthless, brutish, sadistic, narcissistic, and megalomaniacal small man of no stature, is Vladimir Putin also a Christian?
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