Rev. Dr. Rollin O. Russell is a retired pastor and teacher, living in Asheville, NC. He holds graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University and has pastored churches in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas. He served as Conference Minister of the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ, leading congregations in North Carolina and Virginia, then served on the faculty of Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
Why doesn’t some moderately sane Republican politician tell Donald Trump and his suck-up acolytes in the White House and the Senate — in fact, why doesn’t anyone tell the media pundits — that no vote gets counted if it is… Read More »Registered
Donald Trump is the poster boy for the Seven Deadly Sins and he drags in his considerable wake all the hyper religious zealots who should know better, but wink and nod and go along.
In 1973, Robert Ringer wrote his best-selling book, Winning Through Intimidation. I doubt that Donald Trump read the book – he does not read much – but he is the poster boy for the book’s title, if not its contents. Intimidation was… Read More »Winning Through Intimidation
How could he ever have imagined the phenomenal results? It was like winning the lottery every day for three years running. He did not have to invest much or really risk anything. When Vladimir Putin put his thumb on the… Read More »Unintended Consequences
“The buck stops . . . where?” Harry Truman, where are you when we need you? Ever since you were president we have been naïve enough to assume that when it comes to our federal government and accountability for its… Read More »Plausible Deniability
America needs a President who is trustworthy and accountable. Unity will be elusive until that is the case.
When Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote her classic book on the stages of grief in 1969, she was analyzing the experience of persons who receive a diagnosis of terminal illness or those who experience the pain of the death of a loved… Read More »Stages of Grief and COVID-19
The Governor and Attorney General of Virginia have confessed to wearing black face as young men in the 1980’s and are now being pilloried for it. They grew up in Virginia, went to Virginia schools, and though many Virginians and other Anglo Southerners have conveniently forgotten all about it, that behavior would not have been at all remarkable in their communities, schools or social circles at that time.
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