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By: James Rockwood

In this Age of Trump, conservative Christians have been emboldened to call dibs on Jesus Himself. In doing this they’ve become bullies, long on talk, short on listen! In their doctrinal/political discourse they freely wield Jesus like a weapon. The truth is, IT’S NOT JESUS they’ve weaponized, but only their 2-dimensional understanding of Him. This site is designed to counter the conservative Christians’ static rhetoric about God and to reclaim the sacred name of Jesus for the benefit of ALL people. The podcast is an audio messaging feed that promotes the bible-based image of the Liberal Jesus, f...

The Big Blue Betty Part 2
#51
04/25/2023

Vs 5

With giant quantum steps I’m overtaking the challenge of balance

My birthright as youngest: in observing, I’d learned

Arms over my head, like a monkey, I manage to steer.

Using whole body torque, I churn with everything I am.

I’m riding my grown sister’s blue bike on my own.

Vs 6

Training wheels not needed, Betty balances herself alright.

My course included: mostly sidewalks, a bit of road.

I’m a lost Wright brother at Kitty Hawk with a sin...


Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Five
#50
04/16/2023

Vs:

The drag coefficient would slow us down, or worse...

Jerk us back and up—bending our course towards kingdom come.

All the while, dancing and dropping, as we went,

A potpourri of odds and ends:

A potpourri of odds and ends:

A potpourri of odds and ends:

Vs:

Baskets full of red and blinking bulbous noses,

Huge shoes, seltzer bottles (flailing and spraying)

Freshly twisted into life-sized balloon animals...

And right along with this profusion of cl...


Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Four
#49
04/16/2023

But we’d be well-advised, on our part,

To pat ‘em down; finger through their index of pranks & antics;

Because one of those clowns might well be packing

A vertically broad-striped big top

Held out there in the broad daylight

Jumbled in amongst his prop-filled frolicking

Jumbled in amongst his prop-filled frolicking

C:

And with lightning hands would flip out same,

Unpack it, tie it off and let it out through

The E-door of our Bozo transport...

Conv...


Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Three
#48
04/04/2023

Ch #2

Get cares out from under foot;

It’s time to unload.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

When we stop to rest we might encounter some clowns.

A troupe of bozos—deft at pratfalls;

Who know their way ‘round inside tiny autos

And feel at home in confined, crowded quarters.

Who’r...


Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Two
#47
03/31/2023

Ch #1

Get cares out from under foot;

Bind ‘em up (with) what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme.

It’s time to unload—to air out the soul.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

Merrily will we roll; spirits climb up higher as we go...

As we peel off worries choking our hopes

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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter One
#46
03/25/2023

Out for a Drive, No Destination in Mind

Ch #1

Get cares out from under foot;

Bind them up with what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme.

It’s time to unload—to air out the soul.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

Pick wishes off your tree out back.

Stuff ‘em into my...


Still Remembering
#45
03/23/2023

1

There’s a long-ago story we revisit every year.

That presents a still-life image inside our brains.

An image of a world that operated in ways less complicated.

Our imaginations repaint us into a Currier and Ives scene.

Bliss-filled feelings get reincarnated in our hearts.

At that time when One newly born into a stable—

Into the world on a night when the Light came out.

2

It’s a clear star-filled night with snow blanketing rolling hills

That lays out a...


The High Winds Adventurer
#44
03/19/2023

The High Winds Adventurer

With Signals to a Weather-vane

1

Singer from the high cliffs at the ends of the earth,

Sender of whirling tales

Bend them to issue out a far cry;

Make them slap upon and off

The sweat-faced rocks;

Only to follow brooks, chase the geese flocks.

Then to eventuate: somewhere swallowed up

By hungry depths of crevice.

2

My fellow wandering searchers,

Gleaners of lost and fallen squalls:

“Look ha...


The Big Blue Betty Part 1
#43
03/18/2023

Vs 1

One day I just saw her lying on the ground.

I’d fixated on my sisters’ mastery of her workings:

Axles, crank, gears, big wheels…messaged and fashioned

For the solitary purpose (by some unknown genius),

Of manufacturing propulsion for forward motion.

Vs 2

Only 4 years old yet hyped on bennies of “can do” thinking…

Osmosis off upper ranks of Rockwood family roles

Then magnified by my drive to be a bigger boy.

Some voice in my chest spoke out to my he...


World Go Round
#42
03/10/2023

Vs

In the beginning, she started spinning,

Seemingly speeding off all on her own. Oh yes.

An unending going was put in her motion

That sprung from a God of abundant knowing.

Vs

Then God He made the man,

Woman, from then on the clan.

Next quest: to gain control

Over wild wonder of this world spinning.

Ch

Pale horseman comes to town

The final curtain inching down

Sin of all men abound<...