Exploring the Bible in bits and pieces.
The pen pusher, Cynthia Farrar Burse, is a retired clergy member of the PCUSA. Her purpose in life is to help lessen the distance between GOD, the academy, the church pew and the back alley, one word at a time.
Most recent postings:
5. Enduring Patiently as A Conscientious Objector
4. News of Concern and Strings of Hope
3. To Whom It May Concern (A Lenten Deliberation)
2. Breaking a Law to Save a Life (Black History Month 2026)
Introduction
Episode 1–Why the Coming Wrath of GOD is Justified
Episode 2–To Whom GOD is Speaking and What GOD is Saying
Episode 3--Jesus and the Seven Letters
Books by Cynthia Farrar Burse:
For the Record: The Testimonies of Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot, 2nd Edition (2025)
A Little Bible Dictionary for Believers, Seekers and Other Spirit Chasers
Contact information: resilience976@gmail.com
The other evening as I was squeezing out the final hours of a free week of Apple TV, I came across a documentary entitled “The Conscientious Objector.” The subject of the film was a man named Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist and conscientious objector during World War II, but the title of the documentary…
An online article in Level Man magazine recently compared John Roberts, current Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, to the late Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. The report said that Taney’s “opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) is widely regarded by historians, legal scholars, and even modern Supreme Court justices as the worst…
I had a traumatic experience many Lenten seasons ago, during my time as a seminarian. I was selected to preach one of the Seven Last Words during a Good Friday service, and at the conclusion of the seventh word each of the presenters received a nail. As a hammer passed from person to person, I…
Citizens and non-citizens in America who have colored skin tones, speak a language other than English, or fit a targeted religious or racial profile now find it necessary to carry freedom papers wherever we go. Proof of our free-person or residency status should we be detained by policing soldiers, currently the Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
(Introduction published 8/1/2025 on Linkedin.com; Updated 11/19/2025) This is a love letter to the holdout-prodigal child sitting in a pew or on a fence somewhere. Sent with the same care and concern that compelled a shepherd to leave ninety-nine other sheep to go after the one who became distracted and journeyed away from the safety…
The other evening as I was squeezing out the final hours of a free week of Apple TV, I came across a documentary entitled “The Conscientious Objector.” The subject of the film was a man named Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist and conscientious objector during World War II, but the title of the documentary…
An online article in Level Man magazine recently compared John Roberts, current Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, to the late Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. The report said that Taney’s “opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) is widely regarded by historians, legal scholars, and even modern Supreme Court justices as the worst…
I had a traumatic experience many Lenten seasons ago, during my time as a seminarian. I was selected to preach one of the Seven Last Words during a Good Friday service, and at the conclusion of the seventh word each of the presenters received a nail. As a hammer passed from person to person, I…
Sacred Deliberations 