March 27, 2007. Letter to White County (GA) News concerning the teaching of the bible to public high school students. Special emphasis on the morality of Abraham with regard to the attempted sacrifice of his son. Published 4/19/07.

March 15, 2007 Letter to White County (GA) News suggesting that homosexuality is a miracle of God to mitigate the sexual excesses of a heterosexual world. Published 3/15/07

September 24, 2006. Very short letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constition calling universal religions to present icons of supremacy of the moral law, providing such an icon for the Christians Not published.

June 4, 2006. To the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, a proposed solution of the "sanctity of marriage" problem via three amendments concerning civil unions, marriages and the rights of children in adoptions. Not published.

May 23, 2006. Letter to the editor of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution "Faith and Values." Short exposition of Kant's thinking about morals, religion and how the moral is independent of religion, but that the moral also leads to religion. Not-published.

February 5, 2006. Appeal to teach religion in public schools as a means of empowering students to discern among conflicting claims of various faiths and cults. Addressed to the editor of the White County News Telegraph. Published 2/9/06.

December 16, 2005. The Wesleyan Christian Advocate. The focus here is on the liberty of the gentile Christian according to Acts 15 as interpreted by the letters of Paul, and on Paul's understanding of the world, e.g., that the earth is spinning like a top. Published 12/16/05

July 24, 2005. To the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. An appeal for the prohibition of genital mutilation/circumcision for religious purposes alone until a reasonable age of consent. Published 7/31/05.

July 1, 2005. To the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. This letter concerns the means of distinguishing the demonic from the divine, and presents the Christian case for conformity to the characteristics of the divine model and opposed to the demonic. Not published.

05/24/05 to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Heart of the homosexual contrasted with that of a murderer or thief. Same-sex sex as homosexual sex and also as domination sex. The difference is massive. Not published.

02/17/05 To the White County Telegraph with regard to a proposed Gay Straight Alliance at the county high school for the purpose of a concerted action to prevent bullying among students. The focus here is on the liberty of the gentile Christian according to Acts 15 as interpreted by the letters of Paul. A comparison is made between homosexuality and left handedness. Published 2/17/05

01/17/05. To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning homosexuality and left handedness and Paul Not published.

12/26/04. Human rights trump religious rights. A question concerning infant circumscision. To the editor of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. Not published.

11/29/04. Brief summary of Paul's two principles guiding the lives of gentile Christians, with special reference to left handed and gay thieves. Submitted to the Wesleyan Christian Advocatee. Not Published

11/22/04 A rational appeal to United Methodists to treat gays as left handers and not as thieves and murderers. Not Published

10/17/04. Considering the consequences of a vote on gay marriage by people of faith. Published 11/5/04.

07/12/04 to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Moral similarity of left handed persons and homosexuals. The homosexual is a gift of a benevolent nature. Justification of Paul's writing on same-sex sex. Homosexual as a miracle of God, a merciful hope for an over crowded world. Not published.

07/11/04 to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Moral similarity of left handed persons and homosexuals. The homosexual is a gift of a benevolent nature. Not published.

07/07/04 to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution . Moral similarity of left handed persons and homosexuals. The homosexual is a gift of a benevolent nature, and should be accepted by the Christians in faith. Not published.

04/10/04. To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Homosexual in spirit and not in practice. Challenge to United Methodists. not published.

04/04/04. To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Homosexuality as a provision of a benevolent nature for an over-crowded world. Not published.

04/03/04. To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Liberation of gentile Christian proclaimed to United Methodists by a Wesleyan Child. Council of Jerusalem harmonizes with Paul. The homosexual in spirit, even if not in body. Not published.

03/25/04. pre and post pentacost disciples. To Wesleyan Chbristian Advocate. Not published.

11/15/97 (Not published and probably not sent) Here I present the logic of Christian freedom.

12/5/97 Completing the Reformation. Published (Wesleyan Christian Advocate, 12/19/97, Volume 162, No. 20) under the title of "The Golden Rule".

1/16/98 (Not published at my own request, being superseded by the following letter). Concerns a comparison of the biblical view of homosexuals on one side and the remarriage of divorced people on the other.

1/19/98 Homosexuals and Remarriage of the Divorced: Rank Inconsistency? Published (Wesleyan Christian Advocate, 1/30/98, Volume 162, No. 25) under the title of "Let's be consistent".

3/7/98 Preface to the following letter (of 3/9/98) in which I seek to justify my "harping" on the subject of homosexuality and the United Methodist Church. Has to do with my own upbringing in a Wesleyan home, my own experience in the homosexual life and my subsequent marriage and then with the logic of my own view on homosexuality, i.e., while I can see no reason why any homosexual could not enter the straight mainstream and be quite comfortable and even happy (the conclusion of my own experience), I can see no moral or scriptural reason as to why he should think that he ought to do anything like that. Not intended to be published.

3/9/98 Reconciliation of the homosexual question as suggested by two conflicting letters published in the Wesleyan Christian Advocate on 3/6/98. (Not published).

4/28/98. The Golden Rule as the arbiter of conscience and component of the Internal Witness. (Not published).

5/10/98. The strong and the weak in faith compared relative to the homosexual question. (Not published.)

5/20/98. Let the homosexual retreat (like the slaves known to Paul) for the sake of the gospel of Christ, and give God time to strengthen the weak in faith. Consideration of the logic of the Islamic story. (Not published.)

6/17/98 Concerning the simplicity of the Christian moral. (Not published).

6/25/98 Demonstrating the universal precedence of the Golden Rule over the remainder of scripture. (Not published). See also 4/24/99 below.

7/31/98 Concerning Charles Stanley's argument for accepting the Bible as totally correct. Not actually sent to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate (where these letters now seem to be thoroughly ignored), but making a part of the general thesis of the adequacy and supremacy of the Golden Rule.

4/24/99 A rehash of the letter of 6/25/98, namely: demonstrating the universal precedence of the Golden Rule over the remainder of scripture. (Not published.)

6/7/99 Concerning Jesus' assertion that the Golden Rule be the essential "law and prophets" with special focus on the demotion of scripture as the arbiter of the conscience and its replacement by the Golden Rule and the implication of that rule for the conduct vis-à-vis differing Christians seeking to live in the unity of Christ (of Romans 14). Not intended to be published.

7/3/99. Thoughts concerning the Islamics and their quandary.

7/6/99. Declaration of Christian Independence. A letter to the Editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate (not published).

7/10/99 Alternative readings of Romans 1 and 2 for the purpose of unifying Paul's thought in light of the recent Declaration of Christian Independence.

10/27/99. A consideration of the recent, orgiastic conduct of teenagers in Rockdale Country, Georgia, as likely providing an insight into the thinking of Paul in the first chapter of Romans. Submitted to, but not published by, the Atlanta Constitution.

11/05/99. An effort to bring clarity to the debate about homosexuality and rules of conduct in the United Methodist Church. Written to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Not published.

11/19/99. A briefer and better edited version of the letter immediately above. Sent to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, and published (12/3/99, Volume 164, No. 18) under the title of "Gentile and Jewish Christians".

1/24/00 Edited version of a letter to the Faith and Values section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in response to a challenge either to show that the bible does not speak against homosexuality as understood today, or show that what the bible has to say on this subject is not relevant today. This letter contains the gist of a Declaration of Liberty of the Christian Conscience. Not Published.

1/31/00 A follow up to the letter of 1/24/00 above in which certain conclusions are drawn from the concept expressed. Not mailed and not published.

2/17/00 Concerning the Reconciliation of Jewish and Gentile Christians. Not Published.

3/16/00 Letter to the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate suggesting a way out of the current homosexual impasse. Edited slightly since posting. Original Published (4/7/00, Volume 164, No. 27) under the title of "Marriage is a monastery".

5/9/00 To the editor of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution with an (overly) concise statement of the purpose of the Christian revelation along with an explanation of the moral decline of the faith. Published (5/20/00, p B-3) with editing and deletions, and under the title of "Scriptures as history of faith."

5/20/00 Further comment on the letter above of 5/9/00.

6/7/00 To the editor of Wesleyan Christian Advocate, official publication of Georgia United Methodists, demanding that United Methodists achieve consistency in their thinking, such that if the homosexuals are to be rejected because of scriptural passages, then others must also, for what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Published (6/16/00, p.3) under the title of "Cleansing the temple".

6/21/00 To the editor of the "Faith and Values" section of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. An attempt to assure the person of faith that creationism is of no value as a scientific teaching, and that evolution is not a threat to faith. Contains a hint of Kant's Third Antinomy and the reconciliation of nature and freedom. Not Published.

9/20/00 to the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, chiding the United Methodists for not grasping the concept of the Gentile Christian, and then obliquely showing how the concept of the monastery includes the state of marriage and enables the church to deal with the homosexual demand for sanctioned union without upsetting those United Methodists who are Jewish in their outlook. Not Published.

10/04/00 to the editor of the Faith and Values section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution chiding protestants for not grasping the concept of the Gentile Christian, and then using the marriage as an example and special case of the monastery which reflects the brotherhood of Jesus and his disciples. Not Published.

10/26/00 Letter to the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning the remedy for the conflict between the Jewish and Gentile Christians. Not Published.

11/11/00 Tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor of the Faith and Values section of the Atlanta Journal Constitution chiding the fundamentalists for not believing that the sky is actually a metallic dome covering and protecting the earth from the waters held above and back by that dome. Published 11/11/00

11/14/00 To the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate in which I formulate the statement of faith of the "strong in faith" Christian, the so-called Gentile Christian, and ask the "weak in faith" (or "Jewish") Christian to accept me on that basis. Published 12/1/00.

11/15/00 Letter to the editor of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution section on Faith and Values, including a preface to the editor encouraging publication. The letter deals with the "strong in faith" (the Gentile Christian) and how he or she is to deal with the "weak in faith" (the Jewish Christian). This letter constitutes a paraphrase of Romans 14 for modern times. Not published.

11/20/00 Letter to Faith and Values (Atlanta Journal/Constitution) on the question of the temporal order of God and moral thinking in human consciousness. Also a brief warning against the citation of Hitler as an icon of evil. Published 11/25/00. The final paragraph concerning Hitler was omitted.

12/04/00 Letter to Faith and Values of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution negating the argument that scripture were the source of our knowledge of right and wrong. Published 12/16/00 in an edited fashion.

1/4/00 Letter to Faith and Values of the Atlanta Journal/Constititution (including a preface for the editor, and very similar to one sent this same day to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate) calling for monasteries to promote more communal Christian living and to help alleviate the problem of an overcrowded world, and both accomplishments as a result of reconciliation the "pro-gay" and the "anti-gay" wings of the faith. Not published

1/17/01 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning the lawlessness of the Gentile Christian which is iconized by the demand of Jesus that we drink his blood. Not published.

2/19/01. To Faith and Values of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution offering to defend the thesis that Jesus was the greatest of the kings of the Jews. Not published.

2/26/01 To Faith and Values of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution extolling the advantages of the Christian monastery as a means of dealing with the question of homosexual marriage. Published 3/3/01, page B3, in an edited fashion.

3/5/01 A reply to the "anti-gay" letters published in the Faith and Values section of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution on March 3, 2001. The reply looks at the liberty of the Gentile Christian and how it is inviolable and then also at the matter of divorce. Not published.

3/13/01. Letter to the Faith and Values section of the Atlanta Journal/Consitution describing the distinction between the Gentile and the Jewish Christians and the subsequent source of their differences and the solution given in Romans 14. Not published.

4/9/01 The Wesleyan solution to the moral problem of "working for a reward" and the promise of the Wesleyan experience. For the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Edited by the Advocate and published May 18, 2001, page 3.

4/16/01 Letter to both the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and the Wesleyan Christian Advocate clearly laying out the difference between the Jewish and Gentile Christians and the possibility of their cooperation, even if not their reconciliation. Not published.

5/6/01 Letter to both the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and The Wesleyan Christian Advocate defining a rational religion and asserting Gentile Christianity to be such and then declaring how this faith can bless the world by blessing and promoting homosexual unions. Not published.

5/23/01 Letter to the Atlanta Constitution relating to an earlier column on "polyandry" by William Safire and to the early Mormon prophets, and remarking on the decided advantage to the world of the Gentile Christian. Published 6/5/01. I don't think this was published and the indication here that it was needs to be checked.

6/4/01 Letter to the Atlanta Constitution on a tendency of people to become stingy as they become richer. Not published.

6/11/01 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution and the Wesleyan Christian Advocate as a call to Gentile Christians to understand and accord with their own status as free from all law and in pursuit of the incarnation of the Spirit of Christ within them. Not published.

11/16/01 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution suggesting a nominal way out of the gay marriage impass through creative definitions. Published 11/16/01

11/23/01 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution concerning a need for a moral conduit for any and all ways to heaven. Published 11/'23/01 after considerable editing.

12/28/01 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution concerning the motivation and fundamental errors of Hitler and Bin Landen. Published 12/28/01 after drastic and unacceptable editing.

01/10/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution in response to a letter from a Mr. Robertson calling upon Christians to protest against the prominent status accorded gays in the inauguration of a new mayor of Atlanta. Not published.

01/13/01 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution conveying the notion of a morally acceptable distribution of happiness. Not published.

01/20/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution concerning the evaluation of alleged commands of God. Not published.

05/01/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution on the revolution in the Chrisitian fiath on the part of the Gentile Christian. Not Published.

05/12/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution regarding the pedophilic scandal of the Roman Catholic Church with suggestions for clarity in moral thinking and with a description of the Gentile Christian in the thinking of Paul. Not published.

06/23/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitituion and the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning the essential claim of the Christian faith and with particular reference to Kant's declaration of the faith as "the only moral faith in recorded history." Edited version published by the WCA on July 19, 2002. Correction to the logic in the letter posted 8/31/02

08/04/02 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate questioning the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in issuing behavior rules in the face f the liberation of the Gentile Christians by the Council of Jerusalem. Pubished on September 6, 2002, page 8.

09/01/02 Missive to the Atlanta Journa/Constitution based on Kant's "Guide for the Conscience" questioning the utilization of hearsay evidence of scripture above the direct witness of the moral law within each person. Not published.

09/10/02 Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution on how to discern the voice of God. A defense of Abraham against the moral attack by Kant. Not published.

09/29/02. Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning a means of independent evaluation of religious claims. Published 6/6/03, Vol 167, No. 23, page 8.

11/06/02. Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate containing a brief encapsulment of the Christian faith. Not published.

11/10/02. Letter to Palmquist containing a draft encapsulment of the Christian faith.

03/30/03. Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate in praise of the Episcopalian mode of prayer for universal well being where individual concerns are derivative. Published sometime in April or May, 2003.

05/17/03 To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate under the subject of "Jesus and Paul". Compares the teachings of Jesus and Paul in light of their respective environments. A note suggesting how Mohammed missed the teaching of the Gentile Christian. Not published.

06/29/03 To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. We must not condemn non-Christians, for Paul indicates that those who obey the law naturally without the law are pleasing to God. Not published.

08/12/03 Letter to the editors of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. Inspired by the recent election by the Episcopalians of their "gay bishop" this letter makes, very briefly, the compelling legal case for the liberty of the gentile Christians, and thus, by implication, against the presumption on the part of any Christian body to impose any rules and regulations on the conscience of the gentile Christian. Published 9/5/03 by the Advocate.

09/18/03 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advcate on the "weak-in-faith" and the "strong-in-faith" and how they are alike and different and how they are to cooperate as two great congregations of a single United Methodist Church. Not Published.

09/20/03 Letter to the Atlanta Journal & Constitution for the "Faith and Values" section concerning a unification of the communion among Christians by the terms Servants and Friends. Not published.

9/20/03 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate concerning the logic of Christian reconciliation. Peter and the Pope are head of the Jewish Christian Congregation, but they cannot over ride the Edict of the Council of Jerusalem for heaven has already been ordered accordingly and this cannot be countermanded. Not Published.

09/23/03 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Peter and Paul acknowledge the liberty of conscience of the Gentile Christian, and that Paul is doing vis-a-vis the gentiles what Jesus did vis-a-vis the Jews. Not Published.

09/23/03 To the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Peter and Paul acknowledge the liberty of conscience of the Gentile Christian, and Paul is doing vis-a-vis the gentiles what Jesus did vis-a-vis the Jews.

09/24/03 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. My final letter. Not published.

Several letters sent and not recorded here.

02/08/04 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Paul's thinking vis-a-vis the edict of liberation of the Christian conscience by the Council of Jerusalem. Not Published.

02/15/04 Letter to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Solution of the gay marriage problem by reference to the rights of adults and the rights of children. Not published.

02/24/04 Letter to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate. Asking the church to provide Christian unions for homosexuals, and how it is that Paul was not referring to homosexuals in Romans 1, but rather the debauchery of straight men. Not published.

02/28/04. Letter to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. On protecting the rights and dignity of left handed people and gays.