Rev. Robert H. Tucker's Mind Matters
Table of Contents
Number 428 “My Feet’s
Weary but My Soul’s at Rest,” December 23, 2002
Number 427 On
Means and Ends, June 3, 2002
Number 426 "And Time Stood Still, May 13, 2002
Number 425 Temporize, not Trivialize, April 22,
2002
Number 424 "And
Not a Drop to Drink," April 1, 2002
Number 423 "Do You Speak English?" March
25, 2002
Number 422 Samplings from Southeast Asia, March 18,
2002
Number 421 Wicca, January 28, 2002
Number 420 What is at Stake? November 26, 2001
Number 419 God
Angrily Clarifies "Don't Kill" Rule, November 13, 2001
Number 418 Established
Nonbelief, November 6, 2001
Number 417 After
September 11, October 14, 2001
Number 416 Reflections
on Terrorism, September 17, 2001
Number 415 Redemption
Fatigue, September 10, 2001
Number 414 Tyranny
of Weight, September 2, 2001
Number 413 Bible as
Meeting Place, August 27, 2001
Number 412 Discernment,
August 20, 2001
Number 411 When Life
Flows Fresh and Free, August 13, 2001
Number 410 The
Journey to Skepticism and Relativism, August 6, 2001
Number 409 "I
believe I am an honorable man," July 30, 2001
Number 408 Astonishing
Lives, July 16, 2001
Number 407 Meeting
Place, May 21, 2001
Number 406 Collateral
Damage, April 30, 2001
Number 405 Little
Lower than the Angels, April 23, 2001
Number 404 Underneath
We're Not All Alike, April 16, 2001
Number 403 Reel
Theology, April 2, 2001
Number 402 Glazed
Eyes, March 5, 2001
Number 401 Tossing
Sermons, February 19, 2001
Number 400 One Life,
Three Poems, February 12, 2001
Number 399 Sliding
By, February 5, 2001
Number 398 Ethnic
Cleansing, January 22, 2001
Number 397 Tears of
Love, January 15, 2001
Number 396 Maintaining
Ideals, January 8, 2001
Number 395 Growing
Older, January 1, 2001
Number 394 A
Christmas Overture, December 25, 2000
Number 393 Joyful,
Not Jolly, December 18, 2000
Number 392 A Textual
People, December 4, 2000
Number 391 Choose
Joy, November 27, 2000
Number 390 Moses
"Straight Up," November 20, 2000
Number 389 Food for
Thought, November 13, 2000
Number 388 Religion
Domesticated, November 6, 2000
Number 387 Posting
the Ten Commandments, October 30, 2000
Number 386 Boundaries,
October 23, 2000
Number 385 Known but
Not Known, October 16, 2000
Number 384 Humble
Thoughtfulness, October 2, 2000
Number 383 A
Surprising Heritage, September 25, 2000
Number 382 It's Time
to Grow Up, September 18, 2000
Number 381 Bumper-Sticker
Theology, September 11, 2000
Number 380 Is There
Life after High School, September 4, 2000
Number 379 Role
Relationships, August 28, 2000
Number 378 Never
Have Things Been So Bad, August 21, 2000
Number 377 Dumb
Readings, August 14, 2000
Number 376 The Being
and Becoming of Marriage, August 7, 2000
Number 375 One Inch
from the Floor, July 31, 2000
Number 374 "Nothing
Long," July 3, 2000
Number 373 To Be a
Pilgrim, June 26, 2000
Number 372 World
Enough and Time, June 19, 2000
Number 371 First
Settlers, June 12, 2000
Number 370 "Wing
to Wing, Oar to Oar," May 29, 2000
Number 369 Book
Burning, May 22, 2000
Number 368 Depth,
Direction and Desire/Passion, May 15, 2000
Number 367 Selective
Proof-Texting, May 1, 2000
Number 366 A
Reflection on Life and Death, April 3, 2000
Number 365 Not
Just a He-Story, March 27, 2000
Number 364 "You
Have to Work at It," March 13, 2000
Number 363 What
Was Not Said, February 14, 2000
Number 362 Legacy, January 31, 2000
Number 361 On Maintaining One's
Amateur Standing, January 17, 2000
Number 360 Obituaries, December 27,
1999
Number 359 I Actually Read the Book,
December 20, 1999
Number 358 What's the Difference,
December 6, 1999
Number 357 Term Limits, November 29,
1999
Number 356 High School, November 22,
1999
Number 355 A Daily Gift, November 15,
1999
Number 354 Human Hormesis, November 1,
1999
Number 353 Dogma A Go-Go!, October 18,
1999
Number 352 Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away
the Key!, October 4, 1999
Number 351 Alleviating Anger's
Anguish, September 27, 1999
Number 350 Air-Conditioned Politics,
September 20, 1999
Number 349 Passionate People Making,
September 6, 1999
Number 233 Negative Campaigning (first
printed October 30, 1995), August 8, 1999
Number 231 They All Want Money (first
printed January 27, 1997), July 26, 1999
Number 236 What Language Shall I
Borrow? (first printed March 3, 1997), July 19, 1999
Number 237 Conversational Truth,
(first printed March 10, 1997), July 12, 1999
Number 348 Funneling Knowledge, July
5, 1999
Number 347 The Color of Wheat, The
Color of Dawn, June 28, 1999
Number 346 Closure on Closure, June
21, 1999
Number 345 Shooting Boy Scouts, June
14, 1999
Number 344 Sudsy Malone's Laundry and
Libations, June 7, 1999
Number 189 Fire and Ice, (first
printed March 4, 1996), May 24, 1999
Number 188 God is a Verb, (first
printed February 26, 1996), May 17, 1999
Number 182 Bravo!(first printed
January 10, 1996), May 10, 1999
Number 343 "And Now, a Word from
Our Sponsors," May 3, 1999
Number 342 If Not Whom, Then What?
April 26, 1999
Number 341 How Does It Mean? April 19,
1999
Number 340 Pilgrim and Puritan Women,
April 12, 1999
Number 339 Twentieth Century - Death
by Government, April 5, 1999
Number 338 Leadership on the Go, March
29, 1999
Number 337 Original Sin: The Only
Cheerful Doctrine, March 22, 1999
Number 336 Mad About You, March 15,
1999
Number 335 Be Kind, March 8, 1999
Number 334 Dinner with Myself, March
1, 1999
Number 333 "Could've Been
Worse," February 22, 1999
Number 332 b.Oct.14, 1894-d. Feb. 10,
1896, February 15, 1999
Number 331 The Extraordinary Ordinary,
February 1, 1999
Number 330 New Words for the New
Century, January 25, 1999
Number 329 Tainted Money, January 18,
1999
Number 328 Creative Chaos, January 11,
1999
Number 327 "Jaws IV,"
January 4, 1999
Number 326 Retirement Thoughts,
December 21, 1998
Number 325 "Simplicity,
Simplicity, Simplicity," December 14, 1998
Number 324 Power Tends to Corrupt,
December 7, 1998
Number 323 Clinton-Starr Musings,
November 23, 1998
Number 322 Loopholes, November 23,
1998
Number 321 Still a Burning Issue,
November 16, 1998
Number 320 Guilt and Feeling Guilty,
November 9, 1998
Number 319 Dervish Prayer, November 2,
1998
Number 318 "Are You a
Christian?" October 26, 1998
Number 317 Premature Birth?, October
19, 1998
Number 316 A Compulsive Sense-Maker,
October 12, 1998
Number 315 LingeringEmotion, October
5, 1998
Number 314 Spurious Suspicions,
September 28, 1998
Number 313 Perilous Giving, September
21, 1998
Number 312 Foolish Consistencies,
September 14, 1998
Number 311 "Out, Damned Spot,
Out!" September 7, 1998
Number 310 Awe and Alarm, August 31,
1998
Number 309 Reflections on Terrorism,
August 24, 1998
Number 308 Statistical Imagination,
August 17, 1998
Number 307 Family Heirlooms, August
10, 1998
Number 306 "The Bible Tells Me
So," August 3, 1998
Number 305 What's Your Lynching Story?
July 27, 1998
Number 304 A Victim of the Good, July
20, 1998
Number 303 Breaching the Wall of
Separation, July 13, 1998
Number 302 Retrospective
Predestination, July 6, 1998
Number 301 A Premillennial
Dispensationalist, June 29, 1998
Number 300 Misplaced Concreteness,
June 22, 1998
Number 299 Boot Camp, June 15, 1998
Number 298 Why?, June 8, 1998
Number 297 The Not So Opposite Sex,
June 1, 1998
Number 296 A Less Reluctant Heir, May
25, 1998
Number 295 Not Much of Any
Consequence, May 18, 1998
Number 294 Personal Convictions, May
11, 1998
Number 293 On Learning How to Read,
May 4, 1998
Number 292 "...And There's the
Rent," April 27, 1998
Number 291 For Your Own Good, April
20, 1998
Number 290 "Why Kill Our
Children?" April 13, 1998
Number 289 "The Low, Vast Murmur
of Life," April 6, 1998
Number 288 "WWJD," March 30,
1998
Number 287 Proposition 227, March 23,
1998
Number 286 ADismal Cheer, March 16,
1998
Number 285 "Six Impossible Things
- Before Breakfast," March 9, 1998
Number 284 "A Translator is a Traitor,"
March 2, 1998
Number 283 Practice, Practice,
Practice, February 16, 1998
Number 282 Truth, Quadrilaterally
Speaking, February 9, 1998
Number 281 A Personal Saint, February
2, 1998
Number 280 "10" January 26,
1998
Number 279 "Did You Hear the One
About the Lawyer Who...?" January 19, 1998
Number 278 A Conserving Church in the
Liberal Tradition, January 12, 1998
Number 277 Relief for Sick &
Disabled Seamen, January 5, 1998
Number 276 What War?, December 29,
1997
Number 275 A Christmas Story, December
22, 1997
Number 274 No Longer Plaster Saints,
December 15, 1997
Number 273 Reflections on Starry
Night, December 8, 1997
Number 272 17 Minutes, December 1,
1997
Number 271 The Wave of the Future,
November 24, 1997
Number 270 Thinking about Thinking,
November 17, 1997
Number 269 "Where Will It
Stop?" November 10, 1997
Number 268 Letting Go, November 3,
1997
Number 267 "I Believe in the
Resurrection of the Dead." October 27, 1997
Number 266 How Will We Raise Our
Children in a Pagan Culture? October 20, 1997
Number 265 "They Did It
Too!" October 13, 1997
Number 264 "What Do they
Want?" October 6, 1997
Number 263 Walking Six Miles through
the Snow, September 29, 1997
Number 262 Whither (or Wither?)
Education?, September 22, 1997
Number 261 "You should...,"
September 15, 1997
Number 260 Fish in Water, September 8,
1997
Number 259 Original Sin Revisited,
September 1, 1997
Number 258 A Less Forbidding Word,
August 25, 1997
Number 257 A Healing Scar, August 18,
1997
Number 256 Minority Report, August 11,
1997
Number 255 A Michael Jordan Friend,
August 4, 1997
Number 254 "Bore Me!", July
28, 1997
Number 253 "Why ... Why
Now?", July 21, 1997
Number 252 "What's in a
Name?", July 14, 1997
Number 251 "Our Lives...",
July 7, 1997
Number 250 The Good Samaritan
Revisited, June 16, 1997
Number 249 Oh, To Be Seventy Again!,
June 9, 1997
Number 248 Never Again, June 2, 1997
Number 247 Just Answer the Question,
Please! May 27, 1997
Number 246 Give Us the Courage, May
19, 1997
Number 245 "Good Heavens!"
May 12, 1997
Number 244 With Friends Like These...,
May 5, 1997
Number 243 Who Speaks for the
Victims?, April 28, 199 7
Number 242 On Human Energy and
Creativeness, April 21, 1997
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