by John Pitney | Feb 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
The time is coming soon when they will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation. Neither will they learn war anymore. For every family will sit under their own vine and beneath their own fig tree...
by John Pitney | Feb 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is Part 3 in a series of articles on the Clean Energy Jobs Bill being considered in the Oregon State Legislature. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. These are our climate heroes in the Oregon Legislative Assembly. As we work for the Clean Energy Jobs Bill to...
by John Pitney | Feb 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is Part 2 in a series of articles on the Clean Energy Jobs Bill being considered in the Oregon State Legislature. Read Part 1 here. These are my McMinnville Climate Heros! They are Dick and Carol, Michael, Janet and Dana, Pat, Elwyn, Janet and me! In November...
by John Pitney | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
From the greatest to the least of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain. They heal the wound of my people lightly saying, “Shalom, shalom!” when there is no Shalom. Were they ashamed of their abomination? Are you kidding? Of course they weren’t ashamed. They didn’t...
by John Pitney | Feb 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Yesterday morning I promised to follow up my blogpost about the February 14 trifecta of Valentine’s Day, Oregon’s Birthday and Ash Wednesday. I wasn’t prepared, at the time, to finish my Ash Wednesday reflection for I hadn’t yet been to church to receive the smudge of...
by John Pitney | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today is February 14, a day of love in popular culture, of little flying Cupids and heart-shaped candy with the taste of “Won’t you be mine?” scrolled upon them. But did you know it’s also a day of brightly frosted cakes in the shape of the State of Oregon and...
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