Dan Bryant

Cancel culture?

ByDan Bryant July 5, 2020 2 Comments

George Will is back to his true form, pissing me off royally with his attack on the protestors, and in so doing, ironically is in lock step with the President whom he abhors with unparalleled passion, just one of many ironies in this most unusual moment. What has their joint ire is some amorphous thing they discount as unAmerican (Trump) and unintelligent (Will), called “cancel culture.”...

Stranger Love

ByDan Bryant June 26, 2020 0 Comments

Dr. Peter Tsai “You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Deuteronomy 10:19 A country boy who grew up on a farm in Taiwan went to work in the city. He discovered that his country was very good at manufacturing the technology they learned from elsewhere, but no one could tell him why things were being made the way they were. He wanted to find out if he...

Say it: Black Lives Matter

ByDan Bryant June 21, 2020 2 Comments

There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; for all of you are one... Galatians 3:28 I can understand why many well-meaning Christians make the argument that "all lives matter" as a basic, Christian principle. We are all made in the image of God, all races, male and female (Genesis 1:26-27). American Christians, at least in most white churches, grew up singing "Jesus loves...

Character Matters

ByDan Bryant June 13, 2020 3 Comments

You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant. Matthew 20:25-26 Is the character of civic leaders important in this day and age, or is it just about who delivers the outcomes that I want? I find it particularly disturbing that so many of my...

A Picture is worth…

ByDan Bryant June 3, 2020 6 Comments

Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. Luke 24:13-14 There is nothing particularly unusual about a President of the United States using the Bible. Jimmy Carter gave Sunday School lessons. Thomas Jefferson made his own rendition of...