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Tag Archives: Church
POEM: Following A Higher Doody
Unfortunately, Christianity is too oft weaponized against our very own siblings of God. Following A Higher Doody Their those Christians Who go to church They’re those Christians Who go Too church
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christianity, Church, God
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POEM: The Incalculable Weighs to Prey
This poem ponders the fact that hardships and trauma can lead people away from religious and spiritual seekings as well as leading them to such seeking. I find that while darkness can be powerful, even overwhelming, light has a way … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Church, Life, Religious, Spiritual
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A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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FREE POSTER: Senator Rob Portman as The High Priest Caiaphas, Starring In That Christian Damn Nation
This free poster takes Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to church over his brutally un-Christian vacillation over the senate Republican health care bill. This satirical poster is yet another installation in my “Parity or parody in democracy” series. Wile Sen. Portman … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Christian, Church, Democracy, free poster, Health Care, Jesus, Logic, Medicaid, Parity or Parody, Poor, Republican, Rich, Sen. Rob Portman
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POEM: Owed To Chet Chambers
His exacting integrity Was seeded only by generosity of heart He loved Awe of God’s children As well As he kin He planted seeds That others would harvest He worked side by side Under God’s reign And the radiance of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Change, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Community, Cuba, Death, Experience, Faith, Family, Generosity, God, Grace, Heart, Housing, Humanity, Humility, Integrity, Jesus, Justice, LGBT, Life, Pastor, Poverty, Sex, Social Justice, Theology, Time, Toledo, Welfare
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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness
I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research. I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Anxiety, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Change, Character, Children, Church, Culture, Environment, Events, Experience, Future, Happiness, Heart, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Joy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Meaning, Modern, Money, Nature, Perspective, Play, Political, Present, Psychology, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Respect, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Science, Selfish, Society, Soul, State, Suffering, Superficial, Surreal, Time, Values, War, Welfare, Work
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COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Loving Your Enemas
The legal lists Were longing With who hurt And who not heard Attesting too How much they love They’re enemas Only wading For sue a side As eminent just us And inevitably knot Passing the smell test This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Awe, Christianity, Church, Creation, Defense, Enemies, Evil, Humanity, Humility, Imperialism, Life, Logic, Love, Modern, Morality, Nationalism, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, State, Truth, War, Worship
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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus Retirement Plan
CEO Jesus: You Had Me At The Retirement Plan After a long hiatus, CEO Jesus is back. This comic was inspired by a poem I wrote recently: At Jesus, Inc. I came for the love and mutuality I stayed for … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Christian, Christianity, Church, Comics, Death, Jesus, Joke, Love, Martyrdom, Nonviolent, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Questions, Radical, Religion, Revolutionary, Risk, Security, Short Poems, State
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POEM: Are You A Friend of Dorothy?
As a friend of Dorothy Day I wood ax More than won quest in A bout Her call As a tenet in passable saint hood As if a priest to nun Or mirror lay person Aborting gaiety As an infallible … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, America, Atheist, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Church, Citizenship, Culture, Dogma, Dorothy Day, Dream, Dreams, Elite, Faith, Gender, God, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Present, Privilege, Questions, Religious, Sacred, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Wealth, Women, Work, Worship
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POEM: Less Than Eternal Question
The Rev. Medley Had risen To the highest position He would ever It was only down from there An awe too common Occupational hazard Of moderate irony And accumulating lessens Just falling short Of making one cross Facing that less … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Buddhist, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Elite, Faith, Fear, God, Irony, Jesus, Joke, leadership, Life, Living Simply, Living Wage, Materialism, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Murder, Nature, Power, Questions, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, Truth, Wealth, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: A Forgetting God
Remembering God is almost as hard as God forgetting us Remembering God can be difficult. Remembering God can be particularly difficult if we are not trying to remember God. I believe that we all experience God, though some of us … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christian, Christianity, Church, Conservative, Death, Equality, Experience, God, Human Race, Jesus, Life, Love, One-line Poems, Poetry, Puns, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Resistance, Sex, Sexuality, Time
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POEM: I Could Have Swore
I Could Have Swore Backs against the wall And faceless No name to call Wandering If anyone Ever Will get their drift Homie-less At the center A cross person Surrounded by thieves And gawkers In a sea of blindness In … Continue reading
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Ancient, Art, Authorities, Authority, Awareness, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, budgets, Capitalism, Change, Character, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Rights, Classism, Common Good, Community, Compassion, Competition, Conscience, Consumerism, Control, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Creativity, Death, Defense, Denial, Domestic Violence, Domination, Dream, Economic, Egalitarian, Enemies, Equality, Evil, Facts, Failure, Faith, Family, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Future, Gender, Gift, God, government, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Idolatry, Image, Immorality, Impersonal, Incarnation, Inequality, Injustice, Intimacy, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Labor, Law, leadership, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Market, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Militarism, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, Nonviolence, Patience, Patriarchy, Patriotism, Perspective, Philosophy, Piety, Political, Politics, Poor, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Prison, Privilege, Prophet, Questioning, Questions, Racism, Radical, Rage, Reality, Reconciliation, Relationships, Religious, Responsibility, Resurrection, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Science, Security, Sexism, Society, Solidarity, Songs, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Stewardship, Success, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Unjust Laws, Values, Violence, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worship
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POEM: Worship Here and There
I heard that many people will travel miles To go to church I find so much worship between here and there I rarely make it anymore
Another Bastard for Birth Control
Today, a couple hundred people gathered outside the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, to demonstrate about religious freedom and healthcare in America. Most of the crowd was organized by the effort to repeal President Barack Obama’s so-called Obama care, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political Action
Tagged America, Birth Control, Catholic, Children, Church, Conscience, Control, Demonstrators, Family, Freedom, Health Care, Health Insurance, Income, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Life, Obama, Occupy Toledo, President, Pro-life, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, State, taxes, Toledo, Torture, War, Work
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Jesus Quote–BUTTON Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Matthew 5:9 – Jesus–BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Argument, Bible, Blessed, Children, Christian, Christianity, Church, Co-option, Conscription, Conventional Wisdom, cool design, Courage, Death, Enemies, God, Hate, Jesus, Job, Martyrdom, Military, Nonviolence, Pacifism, Peacemakers, Powers that be, Quotes, Religion, Sacrifice, skin in the game, State, Top Pun, Torture, Truth, War, Wisdom
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Reality Television: Poverty Grows
Reality Television: Poverty Grows – POLITICAL BUTTON Reality Television: Poverty Grows – POLITICAL BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker … Continue reading →