The Rude Awakening

For some time now, I've been thinking about putting some of my sermons on my 'Rude Awakening' blog. Over a 33-year pastoral care...

Comedian Bill Maher hits the nail on the head with this commentary on America and our strange love of bombing other countries.

Happy 5th Birthday, dear blog!!  Now that makes me VERY hungry.

"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) emerged from a meeting with President Obama and other congressional leaders earlier today an...

The United States, along with four major Sunni Muslim states in the Middle East--Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia--have been involved...

Syria has brought me back to my blog again.  Sorry for the absence, dear readers.  I've been lazy, I guess.  Actually, I've been doi...

After the Newtown shootings, when young Adam Lanza used an AR-15 and other firearms to kill over two dozen elementary school students and st...

Former Florida Congressman Allen West is definitely a bright star in the Right-wing firmament.  As an African-American conservative, his ele...

What is happening to John McCain?  This is a man that many of us who are liberals and Democrats used to admire because of his willingness to...