Newspaper
Columns by Bishop Paul V. Marshall
These are Bishop Paul Marshall's columns for local newspapers in
eastern and northeastern PA. They appear in The Morning Call
on the first Saturday of the month and in various other newspapers
throughout our 14 counties at other times during the month.
The Designated Lover--Changing the Game of Life
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 2008
God's Biggest Joke
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 2008
What Others Say About You
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 2008
Dead Man Working
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2008
Led by Emotion
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2008
Everyone Called Her Lala
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December 2007
Nightmares
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November 2007
Praise's Paradox
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 2007
The Spirituality of HBO's Sopranos
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 2007
What Do They Eat?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July 2007
Lovers and Friends, the Ultimate Human Communion
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June 2007
Unfair to Roman Catholics...and Others
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 2007
Does Burnout Come from Hard Work?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 2007
Patient Prophecy in an Elevator
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March, 2007
Save the World in an Ordinary Way
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February, 2007
What's the Good Word?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January, 2007
In Swaddling Accessibility
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December, 2006
Don't Be So Humble
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 2006
Why They Call Grace Amazing
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October, 2006
Valuing Co-workers and the Dignity of Labor
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September, 2006
Hijacking Fears and Values
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August, 2006
The DaVinci Opportunity
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 2006
Monitor ingrained reactions that
hurt your soul
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May, 2006
Who's to Blame for Jesus' Death?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April, 2006
Accepting Consequences
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March, 2006
For Better and Worse
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February, 2006
Messages for Latecomers to the Manger
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January, 2006
Who's in the water with us?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December, 2005
Reconciling with one another's complexity
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 2005
You can help the uprooted people of the Gulf
Coast
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October, 2005
My money is on the moral questions
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September, 2005
Volunteers celebrate life as gift
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August, 2005
God raised the retirement age long before
Social Security did
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July, 2005
Love as adventure
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 2005
Name tags create friendly space
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May, 2005
When an Ending is a Beginning
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April, 2005
Pride
is a silly thing to die for
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March, 2005
Explore new territory: cultivate virtue against
the grain
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February, 2005
Forgiven – but
not absolved?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January, 2005
America's Real Moral Crisis
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December, 2004
Getting Over the Pursuit of Happiness
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 2004
We
think we know more than we do about the faith of others
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 2004
Let us give thanks
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September, 2004
Has your religion helped you grow up?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 2004
Strong Religious Belief: Sick or Healthy?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July, 2004
Look at life’s
signals
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 2004
Does Your
Church Fill All Mugs?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 2004
The Passion of the Christ
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April, 2004
The
Reality of Consequences
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March, 2004
The Last
of the "Good Negroes"
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2004
Three
resolutions to nurture close relationships
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2004
Is someone
out there having a good time?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
The Morning Call, Dec. 6, 2003
It's a
kind of applause
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 2003
Does God want
us to hate anyone on his behalf?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October, 2003
What is
the greatest violence done to Jesus?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September, 2003
Is truth-telling irrelevant?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August, 2003
Can religion
embrace the Revolution?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July, 2003
Dare to be
bold servants
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 2003
Forgiving what still hurts does not come cheap
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April, 2003
Elected
officials need vision to see the common good
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May, 2003
All religions
are not equally valuable
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 2003
Being African
American for a Month not so easy as being Irish for a Day
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2003
Disciplined
Curiosity is our most Underused Gift
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2003
'Work Out'
your Salvation
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December 2002
Onward Christian
Dialogue Facilitators' Won't Cut It
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November 2002
We have a duty to oppose war
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October, 2002
Are Churches
Healthy Enough to Draw Clear Boundaries?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 2002
Missouri
Synod's 'Godless Orthodoxy' Ignores Compassion
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 2002
Deal
with your Down to Earth Daily Disrespect
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July 2002
Have we met the Practical
Atheist in us?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June 2002
Enjoy the Gifts
you have been Given
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 2002
Keep a place for the ecstatic to break in
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 2002
What Should Die so New Life
can Happen?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 2002
Give up victimhood for Lent
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2002
Churches Need To Ask
Why They Exist
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2002
A Time to Long,
Change, Hope, and Phone Home
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December, 2001
Getting beyond our inner reptile
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 2001
Religion Gave Him a
False God
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October, 2001
Another Kind of Tax
Revolt
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September, 2001
Is That the Bishop
in the Dumpster?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August, 2001
What women clergy have taught me
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July, 2001
Being Right is Not
the Point
By
Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 2001
Churches Change
by Doing, Not by Discussing
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May, 2001
What Should Die so New Life
can Happen?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 2001
Six
Weeks to Change Our Reality
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 2001
We Walk Before We Run
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2001
Religious Thinking:
Sappy, Shallow and Sentimental?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2001
Instant Gratification
Takes Too Long
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December 2000
Are We Exporting Cultural
Homicide?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November 2000
Embracing Necessary Pain
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 2000
We Invite you to Free your
Spirit
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 2000
To Convert People is
Not a Biblical Expression
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 2000
Shall We Fund Education
or Institutionalize Poverty and Racism?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July 2000
Gun Control is Not a Liberal
Plot
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June 2000
If Christ Has Not Been
Raised...
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 2000
The Christ-Killer in
My House
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 2000
Grace In The Airport
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 2000
Should Christians Seek
to Convert Jews?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 2000
From Repair To Optimization
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January 2000
Mary, Mother of Jesus And
...
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December 1999
Let God's People Be Responsible
For Their Ministry
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November 1999
Don't Confuse Being Valuable
With Being Right
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 1999
Admitting Wrong is
Easier -- And Right
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 1999
Making the Most
of Crisis
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 1999
Getting One's Nose
Out of Joint is Not Spiritual Renewal
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July 1999
Would You Believe
People Often 'Tolerate' You?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June 1999
Littleton --
A Watershed for the Culture
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 1999
Religious Rigidity
Creates Paralyzed Believers
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 1999
When You Want God As
Much As Air
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 1999
Experiencing
Failure Can Provide Perspective
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January, 1999
Looking Behind the
Real Tinsel
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December 1998
Words Create a Lens Through
Which We See People
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November 1998
The World Changes
Forever With One's Loss of Innocence
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 1998
Miners Labored for
the Community in a World of Dim Carbide Lamps
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 1998
This is Bishop Paul's September column for local newspapers.
It is a
rewrite for the secular press of a lengthier
column originally written
two years ago for Diocesan Life.
Cloning:
Will Choices Follow Public Thinking or Public Outcry?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 1998
Frogs That Talk and
Sailors That Walk Upon Water
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July, 1998
Are We Planting Roses
or Weeds in Our Communities?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June, 1998
On Eating Together:
Real Men Say Grace
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 1998
The Christ Killer
In Your House
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April, 1998
Sorting for Sameness
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March, 1998
Choose Relentless
Honesty to Save Your Soul
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 1998
Let's Have More
Adult Content
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
January, 1998
Advent Speaks to
Us of Darkness, Longing and Hope
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
December, 1997
The Ministry
of Not Condemning
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
November, 1997
Encouragement, Curiosity
and Cutting Slack
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
October 1997
I Recommend Pleasant
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
September 1997
Guilt May Be An Occasion
of Grace
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
August 1997
A Solitary Golfer
Rejoins the Human Race
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
July 1997
With My Body I
Thee Worship
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
June 1997
Encouraging
Words May Transform Two People
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
May 1997
Diversity Alone
Kills
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
April 1997
Have We A Sense
of Public Morality?
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
March 1997
Bring on the Religious
Voices ... Please
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
February 1997
What's Really Going
on in the Episcopal Church
By Bishop Paul V. Marshall
Letter to the Editor of the Morning Call
November 1996
