Has the American Dream Died, or Did It Just Fall Asleep?

The American Dream Has Become a Nightmare by Pastor Paul J. Bern To view this on my website, or for small screen viewing, click here 🙂 The “American Dream” has at its core an escape from the real world to build a personalized utopia, a custom-made fantasy island of sorts. When we were taught to […]

Free book excerpt #25 from Progressive Author and blogger Rev. Paul J. Bern

Coming this fall from Author Rev. Paul J. Bern: the 4th updated edition of his popular 2011 nonfiction work, “The Middle and Working Class Manifesto”   The second part of the Manifesto is what I will devote this chapter to. It summarizes the 11 Demands of the People and then organizes them into 7 basic […]

Proven Innocent Yet Still Locked Up: Our Broken Criminal Justice System

God Wants Justice and Mercy, Not Religion, and We’re Falling Short by Pastor Paul J. Bern (Isaiah 58) For better website or small screen viewing, click here 🙂 For this week’s message I have been inspired to write about the true meaning of the twin brothers of the Spirit of the Lord known as justice […]

Free book excerpt #21 from blogger, author and Web pastor Paul J. Bern

Get the latest book offering from Rev. Paul J. Bern; “Cannabis Legalization and the Bible: Compatible Or Not?” Today’s post includes an in-depth interview with Shane at the pro-legalization website and blog Cheap Home Grow (cheaphomegrow.com); check it out from right here Chapter Five This Is What A Police State Looks Like For nearly half […]

President Trump’s Authority, the Bible and Progressive Christianity

Obeying Authority: When It’s Right and When It’s Not by pastor Paul J. Bern To view this on my website, click here 🙂 Today we live in a world where the abuse of authority has gotten completely out of control. This is about so much more than merely being unhappy about Donald Trump’s presidency or […]

Free Book Sample #10 From This Blog’s Author

Although I meant to publish this yesterday afternoon, a series of computer software problems on my desktop workstation have been keeping me from posting this until now. Monday was the 54th anniversary of Rev. Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Allow me to share a little something about that historic event from my first […]

Free book excerpt #10 from Author and Pastor Paul J. Bern

Although I meant to publish this earlier this afternoon, a series of computer software problems on my desktop workstation have been keeping me from posting this until now. Today is the 54th anniversary of Rev. Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I believe this is a good time to share a little something about […]

New book excerpt from Pastor Paul J. Bern; “Cannabis Legalization and the Bible: Compatible or Not?”

Six Ways That Cannabis Criminalization Defies All Reason and Logic [1. Pot smokers punished more than sex offenders] Drugs are so reviled in the US and many other parts of the world that using them is considered worse than any other crime. If you commit violent crimes – arson or rape, for instance – a […]

More on last week’s message about taking America back from the top 1%

A Follow-up to Last Week’s Commentary Last week for the July fourth holiday break, I published a warning stating that unless the American people organize and begin a campaign of passive resistance against the twin evils of Oligarchic capitalism and the Deep State that has enslaved us all (yes, I mean past tense), both ourselves […]

The Health Care Debate, President Trump and the Bible: What Would Jesus Do?

President Trump, National Health Care and Jesus by Pastor Paul J. Bern To view this in any browser, click here! 🙂 The ongoing debate here in America ever since Donald Trump announced he was a presidential candidate back in 2015, and that he was going to “repeal and replace Obama-care”, has reached a crescendo as […]