Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/08/13/h...

How to be Religious Without Being Christian

At dinner the other night, my 3-year old granddaughter sat on my lap and told me she was a kitty-cat! “A kitty-cat?” I said. “I thought you were my favorite youngest granddaughter…

bmelone.com

August 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

@rabbitridge.bsky.social Hey stranger-miss you! How’s life?

July 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/07/18/w...

Wake up! They just don’t care!

Whether talking about grabbing women ‘by the p_____’, or putting kids in cages; whether quoting TWO Corinthians, or suggesting that the injection of bleach into the body might fight COV…

bmelone.com

July 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

So grateful for and proud of the kindness and character, intelligence and integrity, of those who lead my ‘tribe!’ Thanks for the intro Mary Rodgers!

May 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/04/24/i...

I’m sorry I misjudged you!

We grew up together. We went to school and church together. We partied together in college, and backpacked through Europe together. We took family vacations together; and we attended the birthday p…

bmelone.com

April 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

Happy Easter friends!

April 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/04/09/i...

Ignorance as Idolatry (part 2 of 2)

In part 1 of this blog I left you with the question: how do things change in anation being led and governed by the ignorant? Here’s my attempt at an answer. First, we need to be bold and cour…

bmelone.com

April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/04/05/i...

Ignorance as Idolatry (part 1 of 2)

In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s concerns about the callous reproach of the MAGA movement was ignored because of the media’s distraction by her choice of words. Few adjectives better described the follow…

bmelone.com

April 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/03/17/w...

When Common Ground Isn’t Enough

Jesus always has, and always will, be one who demands our all! So when a ‘rich young ruler’ approached him in all three of the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus wasn’t the least bit interested in all they ha…

bmelone.com

March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com

Bob's Blog

Rethinking. Reworking. Reimagining.

bmelone.com

March 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

bmelone.com/2025/02/15/p...

Parched Places and DEI

This is an abbreviated version of my sermon from Sunday, February 9, 2025, and was based on a portion of Jeremiah 17, verses 5-10. As I sat in the Starbucks just down the road from the Federal Cour…

bmelone.com

February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

February 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

Thanks Karen Chamis for speaking up and speaking out!

www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

Reverends react to Episcopal bishop who preached mercy to Trump (Your Letters)

President was not entertained by sermon urging him to have mercy on LGBTQ children and migrants -- and that was the point.

www.syracuse.com

January 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

January 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM

bmelone61.bsky.social

@bmelone61.bsky.social

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · Jan 20

When we Christians are more known for our support of presidents than we are for our support of the poor, the immigrant, the marginalized, and the oppressed, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus and we have a lot of repenting to do.

January 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM