Michael Bray

Author of A Time To Kill

Sanctity of Human Beings

“Oureia Ekbole”

That would be the transliteration of the expression which references “children exposed on the mountains” according to Euripedes as noted in my Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell and Scott, 7th edition).  One finds this information when looking up the single word “ekbole” which means 1) “a throwing” and 2) “ejectment, banishing the cargo overboard.”  It is not […]

No Disfigured Face, Hunched Back

Or Crushed Testicles Allowed! (11 August, 2020 meditation on my prescribed morning reading:  Lev. 21:20) That is the word from Moses on physical qualifications for service in the ceremonies for cleansing unto holiness.   Now the first two would be off-putting to the participants in public religious procedures.  An ugly face and sloppy posture might well […]

Waitin’ on the Court?

O my! What’s the matter? Everybody’s sittin and listenin’ to chatter Nobody shootin’ Everybody tootin’ ’bout the good President we have! And yes and he’s good no doubt And he’s got lots of GOP clout But there is still much more to be done. Can’t sit on our laurels. Got to get on with our […]

Bored and Abhorred

If you don’t want to be abhorred By the Lord Don’t be bored Doing nothing to stop the hordes From taking up swords Against the innocent ones Who don’t get the fun Of life on God’s earth Denied that birth And their imago Dei worth. Oh what a curse Upon those who first Lifted their […]

Self-restraint

You might like to have sex With homos, dogs, cats, and rats But it’s not good for the hood. The judgment comes down And flows all around And drowns The life of folks who Want to live And to give Back to God Who made them To honor and obey Him all day In every […]

No Cursin’ Deaf Folk!

Been readin’ the Word o’ God and trying to get me some o’ that REform in ma heart! Says right there in Leviticus that a fella is not s’posed to trip up blind folk or curse deaf ones neither.  Right there in Leviticus the 19th chapter and the 14th verse.  Yessir.  Well it just causes […]

Niggers and Fetuses

24 April, 2020 What is it about an offensive expression that makes it such?  Is “nigger” not a disdainful word? A word of disparagement? Insult? Even hatred? Whenever we denigrate someone or something unjustly (yes, there are times or occasions for just denunciations or denigrations), we are “offensive” to standards –  to acceptable behavior.  Accordingly, […]

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