MAY 25, 2026 – B

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Peach Orchard Memory — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina

Articulation is the pathway–the Way–to TRUTH, as long as it does not merely repeat what has always been said, as is the case with theology and preaching, patriotism and blah, blah, blah wherever it is experienced. Jacob Brownski said, “We cannot know the truth unless we live in certain ways.” We have to live truthfully. It takes the truth to know the truth. It takes being the truth to know the truth. If we are not living truthfully, we are lying utterly, completely, uselessly. Why live a lie? Yet, that is the way life is lived all about us through the ages. Politics and Religion are two places where lying is not only commonplace, but also are required, demanded, insisted upon–and everyone is in on the travesty. I call out the lie! The lying! With: A Pox On All Your Houses! All of those who would know the truth must live it in order to speak it! And that line is very short indeed.

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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