The Doors Are Slamming Shut

Can you hear it America?
The Doors.

The Doors are being slammed shut.
And sealed tight.

Executive Orders.
And Christian Power.

The Doors are slamming shut.
One-by-one.

Slammed and sealed.
Guarded by doers of good.

"There will be none of that here," they proclaim.
With giddiness and pride.

"We'll have none of that, for we would be pure."
Purity, as they see it, always demands death.

The death of freedom and thought.
Because thought is the bulwark of freedom.

Kill the thought.
Kill the thinker.

And freedom goes away.
And power rises up.

Beware, godly power.
Beware, the power of purity.

Can you hear it America?
The doors are being slammed shut!

I Was Born ...

I was born and baptized a Presbyterian ...
I was reared in the Reformed Church of America.
I was ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
I'm doing an interim in a Congregational Church.

It's not the biggest kind of world.
But I've learned a lot.
Mostly, what I don't know.

It's been a good world for me.
I've learned about walls.
And how to take 'em down.

Noting wrong with a wall.
As long as it has plenty of openings.
Without doors.

Doors that never can be locked.
If there are no doors.
Just passage ways.

And there ya' have it.
It's been good for me.
Amazing world.