D-DAY AND A COMMANDMENT TO HONOR A FATHER
Concerning the Fourth Commandment, we can honor a father or mother after they’re gone… ‘SERGEANT JOE’ Joseph R. was born in1920, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were Peter and Cora R. of rural southern Indiana, where the parents raised the children on a small farm. There were two siblings, aContinue Reading
THE USMC AT 248, VETERANS DAY AT 105, AND ME AT 77
“On 10 November, 1775, by authorization of the Continental Congress, the first companies of the Marine Corps were gathered at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the command of Captain Robert Mullen. 10 November is now your new birthday! Dooo yooou have that absolutely clear, Privates?” “YES,SIR!” “I CAN’T HEARContinue Reading
PERSISTENT IMMIGRANT INJUSTICES AND THE ROMEIKE FAMILY
“The scepter of the wicked shall not reign over the land allotted to the just”, reads one of this morning’s Psalms (120:3). Actually, the scepter of the wicked seems to be doing pretty well in the allegedly ‘broken immigration system’. The following is quoted verbatim from The National Review ofContinue Reading
PENTECOST, PRONOUNS, AND BABEL REDUX
[This post is edited from my post of June, 2022.] Today the Christians of the Western Rite celebrate the Day of Pentecost, or Whitsunday among many in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebration marks the transition from the Easter season to Ordinary Time of as many of us still name it,Continue Reading
TELL YOUR OWN STORIES – CONFRONT THE RACIAL LIES!
Stories about our own histories and experience of life have tremendous and enduring power to confront the racial hatreds and lies so common in contemporary media. Today, March 14, is ‘National Write Your Story Day’. our own personal ‘news media’. So we speak and write so as to narrate theContinue Reading
‘THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD’ – BLOOD TYPE AND HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY
How might blood type better address the individuality of each human life from conception onward, and promote commonality of cultural understanding in the human life discussion? According to the Torah, the Law of Moses, nothing is more basic to the notion of human life than the nature of its life-sustainingContinue Reading
‘NUKING’ GUN-GRABBING COMMENTS IN 7 SHORT STEPS, AND WHY THEY’RE HERETICAL
THE INTRODUCTORY “Is it really “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”? Nooooo… but rather “When the government outlaws guns, only the government will have guns!” – V Rev. David L. Rogers, circa 1971 ‘NUKES’, F-15S, AND OTHER SCARE TACTICS We the People are by this time wellContinue Reading
THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD – BLOOD TYPE AS IDENTIFIER FOR HUMAN VIABILITY
THE ISSUE AT HAND In this piece I suggest a shift in how contemporary culture values human life, that by addressing the subject of human blood as basic to the notion of human life and to the individuality of each person from conception onward. The commonality of humanity is betterContinue Reading
MAGNIFICAT! THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AND THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT
The following is excerpted from my book entitled, “What to Hope In When There Is No Hope: 2019 Advent Readings for Clergy and Laypersons”, copyright 2019 by V. Rev. David L. Rogers; “ “Instead of a Psalm of David, we witness again the Magnificat of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ItContinue Reading
ADVENT SUNDAYS OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
The Second and Third Sundays of the Christian season of Advent are confrontational. For each of these Sundays presents us with the prophet having what prophets require, a backbone of steel and an iron will to stand for who called upon them. St. John the Baptist was not only suchContinue Reading
THE SEASON OF ADVENT – PART 1
[The following post is from the introduction to my Year ‘A’ 2019-2020 Advent book entitled, “What to Hope In When There Is No Hope”, Copyright © 2019 by V. Rev. David L. Rogers]. THE SEASON OF ADVENT The Season of Advent is again upon us in the Year of OurContinue Reading
A CLASSIC THANKSGIVING TEXT FOR TODAY’S WORLD
Deuteronomy 26 1 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and have taken possession of it, and live in it, 2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land thatContinue Reading
A DEMOCRAT INDEED! JFK REMEMBERED – 22 NOVEMBER, 1963
Remember we will, that New Frontier…Continue Reading
TOAD LICKING AND THE U. S. GOVERNMENT – SATURDAY NONSENSE WHEN WE NEED A LAUGH
Toad licking? Really? Even during my not-so-sheltered existence on terra firma, I have somehow missed out on the psychedelic experience, and never knew that the practice was illegal. However, UPI reported on November 8 that the National Park Service warned visitors to the Sonoran desert area that the practice ofContinue Reading
THE USMC AT 247, VETERAN’S DAY AT 104, AND ME AT 76
“On 10 November, 1775, by authorization of the Continental Congress, the first companies of the Marine Corps were gathered at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the command of Captain Robert Mullen. 10 November is now your new birthday! Dooo yooou have that absolutely clear, Privates?” “YES, SIR!” “I CAN’TContinue Reading