Root&Source

I Hope You Like This Gift

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on August 30th, 2021

We Bring Our Troubles We bring before You, O God: The troubles and perils of people and nations, The sighings of the sick, The sorrows of the bereaved, The necessities of strangers, The helplessness of the weak, The despondency of the weary, The...

Absolutely Nothing (say it again)

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on August 18th, 2021

On Monday President Biden addressed concerns about his decision to end the American military operations in Afghanistan. Twenty years, and 2 trillion dollars later and the Taliban is back in charge. The internet is full of people who are suddenly bot...

A Man's Home is His Castle, Even if It's Dilapidated And Radioactive

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on July 10th, 2021

Property rights have become a convenient way to punish people beyond the scope of their actual transgression. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7's recent sentencing shows this plainly. Built in 1978, Kings Bay is a US naval base in the state of Georgia and s...

Hopey Changey Part Deux

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on January 20th, 2021

I’m already seeing folks on the left and right start up with their bull. But many many people need a rest for today, a little indulgence in hope, happiness and renewed promise.No one person is going to save America from its problems. Democracy is not a...

Les Dieux D'Osier

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on August 7th, 2020

One of the things any kid growing up in an Abrahamic faith will remember learning about is idolatry. We got ancient stories of golden calfs and children sacrificed in a fire, and then our teachers would segue into modern times and how today’s culture w...

Not the Stonewall Chit-Chat (Redux)

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on June 1st, 2020

Today begins Pride Month and it is especially relevant this year, as SCOTUS prepares to destroy foundational support of human rights, as hate-fueled monsters massacre innocents to satisfy their gun-lust, and America is struggling to remain a modern dem...

They Died For Amazing Savings

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on May 25th, 2020

Every year I find myself cringing whenever most holidays roll around. Thanksgiving is plowed through to the great Black Friday celebration of cheap crap. Christmas is feted earlier each year as retailers try to increase our piety towards our greatest f...

The Unbearable Heftiness of Poverty

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on January 29th, 2020

I’ve been writing about a local working poor woman, Susan, and since I first encountered her in early December, every day is a new challenge. Every day I get slightly more annoyed (I’m being honest!) and I just want to find a way to blame her, or put o...

With Opression and Lawlessness For Most

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on January 27th, 2020

I’m exhausted. I’m sure you are too. That feeling is part of the concerted effort, whether it’s from Russia or corporate oligarchs, to wear us down. As norms are increasingly attacked and refuted in the face of undeniable evidence, the end goal is to ...

Hello Mr. Nathan

Published by Rev. Nathan DeMay on January 20th, 2020

Poverty is an expensive lifestyle. I wrote in December about a local woman named Susan (OK not her real name) and the struggle she had at the end of last year as a working-poor single mother. She greets me as "Mr. Nathan" when she texts me, although ...