Author: Duane Arnold

A Year… This March will mark a year that the vast majority of us have had our lives upended by  Covid-19.  On March 11, 2020, the WHO officially designated the virus out break as...

The Wilderness of Lent The idea of Lent is remarkable in that it is perhaps one of the best known portions of the Christian Year while, at the same time having its origins somewhat...

Impeachment While I personally support the Senate’s consideration of the single article of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives, I am under no illusions as to it being a palliative when it comes...

Whatever Happened to Christian Ethics? Over the past four or five years I’ve read and heard a load of pronouncements emerging from those who identify as Christians. Strangely, at least to me, most of...

Relationships Every evening, between 6:30 and 6:45, I call my mother.  As I hear her slipping away from me, it is usually my most difficult call of the day.  My mother is one of...

On this Martin Luther King Day, an extract from his ‘Letter From a Birmingham Jail’. “… Yes, these questions are still in my mind. In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the...

Own It… And Let It Go It’s already being described as a “Christian Insurrection”.  The so-called Christian flag was carried into the Capitol alongside those of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis.  Before the assault on...

The Lost Cause The Phoenix Preacher became known for exposing church leaders involved with pastoral abuse.  When such persons were identified, the call was for them to step down from their positions of leadership. ...