Glendale Church of the Brethren

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  I was on a hospice board and a head hospice chaplain for a number of years.   The following are my personal observations about end of life decision making. None of us knows how our life will end.   Many people today would like to go quietly and quick in their sleep.   The [...]

John Christine Found-Jackson During my college years I was a Communications Major and a Linguistics Minor.For my “Minor” I took a class on Transformational Grammar that focused on Noam Chomsky and how he transformed the theory of linguistics from a structuralist approach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism) to a Transformative Generative Approach to language. This is a long [...]

        “I am not afraid of death, and thus I am not afraid to live.” – Pastor John Jackson     “I’m not afraid to die / I’m not afraid to live.” – U2 “Kite” “Life is difficult.  This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great [...]

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                      I  believe in critical/reflective thinking – thus it is good to listen to information sources which disagree with your beliefs. Michael Shermer wrote, “The Believing Brain,” and his main idea seems to be that -If you are a Liberal then you Read the NY Times, Watch MSNBC, [...]

I was asked if I had every performed an Exorcism – there is my answer: First Some Background: Most North American Christians view Christianity through Greek Mythology.   I want to lift up two aspects of Greek Mythology that are prevalent in North American Society in comparison to Christianity and views of the after life. [...]

Here are my highly subjective and controversial (sometimes contradictory)  opinions on the subject of burning the Koran First:  I subscribe to the state motto of New Hampshire “Live free or die” thus the pastor had the right to burn the Koran under his “Freedom of Speech” rights guaranteed him under the U.S. Constitution. And I [...]