Theology Tuesday

She comes to me in the night when loneliness is too much to bear and she holds me close and she helps me forget. You go steppin' out as she comes steppin' in someday I'll be forgiven for this. Cause you just ain't got the time that you used to. Well you say you love me and deep inside hell I know you do. So stop your crying now, I'm already convinced that someday I'll be forgiven for this.                                       -Justin Townes Earle First time I was in Nashville was for the Festival of Homiletics. Yes, only would a preacher gather with hundreds of other preachers, listen to sermons all day and call it a festival. But it was a treat to see the faces that went with voices I had for years heard while studying and listening to sermons in seminary.  Hearing four incredible preachers before lunch...

    We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.                                      Sojourner Truth   On this the centennial celebration of women voting in the USA, Sojourner gets to the heart of it all from her address in 1851 at the Women’s Rights Convention asking “ Aint I a woman? ” There is no record of the speech as she spoke it, only as journalists and later writers remembered it making it truly a living kind of word. Not one contained by historical accounts, but a truth carried in strength and spirit from 1851 for 1920 and today. Sadly, it is a word still needed as sisters continue to seek a fairer world, equal pay and freedom from harassment. Strong, vocal women speaking their mind who are continually referred to as bossy, bitchy or nasty- demeans us all.  In 1920 those women leade...