I was recently invited to open a meeting of the Tahlequah City Council in prayer. What follows is the invocation given at their February 1 meeting:
O Spirit of Holiness …
… who has breathed into our being the gift of life;
grant us thankful hearts that we might be respectful of your graciousness,
and open our eyes that we might see the magnitude of that gift,
in the multitude of earth’s people. continue reading…
This is my most recent column from The Tahlequah Christian, my congregation newsletter, for the week of January 31 – February 6.
I just this week finally got around to watching my recording of “The People Speak,” a two hour special that aired on the History Channel. It was presented through the methodology of Howard Zinn, author of the controversial A People’s History of the United States, who believes that democracy is created from the ground up and that history has often ignored the voices of minority peoples, women, and the oppressed. It contained a collection of readings and songs from his book of the same title, and presented them as a collection of stage performances by celebrities and musicians. In my opinion, this was a breath of fresh air in the otherwise growing collection of History Channel garbage programming. (This especially includes their religious programs – but that’s another column entirely.) continue reading…
