New Beginnings

I've finally figured out how to make all my posts visible.  The posts are listed under Archives and may be accessed one at a time according to date.  I'm surprised to see that my first posts were over six years ago.  In reading some of my earlier posts I think they are more relevant than ever, considering the current political movement in which the political right and conservative Christianity try to coalesce for the furtherance of their political/religious ideals.  The dangers of uniting political power to religious fervor are apparent as far back in history as one chooses to go and it's no different today.  Christians make the mistake of thinking that politically they may achieve what they have not been able to achieve through moral persuasion, not realizing that power granted to the state may one day be turned against them.  God furthered his own agenda by having his Son submit to the power of the state rather than utilizing the state, as was the desire of all those Jews who visualized Jesus as their political Messiah, waving their palms in the excitement of a hoped-for earthly kingdom.  Easter was God's work done God's way, through suffering and death, not political power.  More later.