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Author of A Time to Kill.
Bowie Maryland
Bowie Wrestling
Bowie Wrestling! Class of 2019 Thanks for the medal! And the “pic” with coach Phillips! (Yeah, I give it a stare Sitting in my living room chair. Thoughts drifting to the past, Those days on the grapplers’ mat.) You know it’s the sport coming down Way before basketball was around.It’s the sport of Jesus and […]
michaelbray
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Bowie Class of 2019
Bowie Wrestling Hall of Fame. Thanks for the good work you do in commending wrestlers and advancing the sport! Press on in your good work. It is THE Biblical sport! (You know!) Pax tecum (20 Sept., 2023 after receiving a momento at a recent visit to Maryland)
michaelbray
Sep 20, 20231 min read
LeRoy and Mary Lou
LeRoy Carhart butchers those babiesWay up in Baltimore every day.Yeah, he’s a killer, a real dealerIn the deaths of those little ones.Gets that money and maybe a honeyOr two on the side and to confideHis heinous deeds on the wideRoad to that hell where many goWho murder others and decline to knowThat path of Life […]
michaelbray
Mar 18, 20211 min read
On Baptismal Disputation
I am reading about the purification process for God’s covenant people given by God to Moses. The blood and the water are sprinkled upon the one in need of purification (Num. 19:17-21). And I am thinking about the asininity of one who distinguishes himself or his church from others on the basis of baptismal mode. […]
michaelbray
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Jayne Bray
Battered by the U.S. Government, NOW, and PP But Unbowed 7 May, 2019 Jayne Bray has long suffered for righteousness’ sake. When her husband lost is job on a church staff in 1984 for exposing the then-American Lutheran Church apostasy, she had to tighten the belt of the family as Reformation Lutheran Church was born. […]
michaelbray
May 7, 20192 min read
Biographical Correction
9 April, 2019 One reads the following post at fampeople.com regarding my high school girl friend, Kathy Epstein, now known as Kathie Lee Gifford: During her senior year at high school she dated and went to the prom with Michael Bray (who later became an anti-abortion activist convicted for acts of terrorism) Juergensmeyer, M., “Soldiers […]
michaelbray
Apr 9, 20191 min read
Sodom and Gomorrah 1980*
Why were those folks dumped-on so badly? “Because they were queers!” we might say. Yes they were, to use the slang term, “queers.” (Some may prefer the euphemistic “gay” in accordance with the thinking of our “broadminded society which has proclaimed homosexuality an alternative sexual preference.”) And yes, God condemns homosexuals along with fornicators, adulterers, […]
michaelbray
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Wrestling: A Personal Tribute
31 March, 2017 Revised 22 July, 2017 Distinctive Features of the Sport One of the great blessing of wrestling is instruction in humility. Everyone takes a beating sometime. Thinking back, I believe I also learned through wrestling about the value of volunteer work: those coaches who put so much time and patience into my efforts […]
michaelbray
Mar 31, 201710 min read
Hitlery and Other Apostate United Methodists
27 Oct., 2016 It is not John or Charles Wesley or George Whitfield that I despise. No, as a good Lutheran fellow, I appreciate any fellow Christian with a high (i.e. historic) view of the Scriptures and the defining Creeds of the Faith. And that Faith is affirmed by historic Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, […]
michaelbray
Oct 28, 20165 min read
Fireworks Over a Stilt-Walker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/07/25/the-reliable-source/71a75b03-6d84-425b-ae5f-20d547f250cc/ Such was the title of an amusing response to the discovery that I had been contracted to entertain at a Fourth of July reception at the Kennedy Center in D.C. Washington Post By Lloyd Grove, July 25, 2002 Some faces are red and feminist blood pressure remains high since The Post published a photograph of a […]
michaelbray
Jul 23, 20152 min read
Reformation Lutheran Church, Bowie, Maryland (November, 1989)
RLC. The Church is no more. Reformation Lutheran Church existed from the fall of 1984 until the summer of 2003. The pastors at the time were Michael Bray and Michael Colvin. The Church came into existence from a schism in Grace Lutheran Church (ALC) in response to the general apostasy of the ALC which, soon after […]
michaelbray
Jun 6, 20142 min read
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