Mark Biddle

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Eccl 1:4 RSV

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was born in February of 1957, when the union still had only forty-eight states, three years after the US Supreme Court handed down the historic Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483), and just a few months before the first nine black students enrolled in Little Rock Arkansas schools implementing the ruling. Local sit-in campaigns began at a Woolworth Continue reading Tireless Exertions →

Matt 5:44-47

I “love” chocolate and I “love” my wife. Clearly, the word “love” is almost too multivalent to be useful sometimes.

Two days ago, my phone rang at just after 5pm. It was my youngest son. He began, “Dad, I’m OK, but….” My heart sank to my stomach, my pulse quickened, my mind simultaneously imagined possibilities and braced to hear the actual. He had been rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck at highway speed on the interstate; his car had rolled and Continue reading What the world needs now is hesed, sweet hesed… →

Mark Biddle

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Tireless Exertions

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What the world needs now is hesed, sweet hesed…

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Hermeneutics, Consistency, and “Christian Values”

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Two more

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Catching up on the 12 days of Christmas in music

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Two Today

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Six of Twelve – “Hallelujah”

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Villancico Cinco

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The Series Continues with “Angels We Have Heard on High”

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The Third

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