Jul 27, 2012 | General, Methodism, Pop Culture
I remember when I was just a boy hearing people telling me to keep the match out of the tank, the spark away from the gas main, and my lighter away from the big brown bag of fireworks. “You’ll blow us all to Kingdom Come.” I finally figured out what...
Mar 27, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism
Bishop Joe Pennel has raised some excellent questions in a recent post at the UMPortal. He indicates that we are not focusing on the right things with Call to Action in the United Methodist Church. He writes: I cannot prove it but I am of the opinion that...
Mar 24, 2012 | General, US Politics
Trayvon Martin’s death has been called a tragedy. It has been called a murder. It has been called justifiable homicide. His killer, George Zimmerman, has been called a murderer, a racist, and a vigilante. The silence from white evangelicals has been deafening....
Mar 10, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, US Politics
The United Methodist Call To Action has created a variety of responses and questions across the United Methodist Church. The debate has created some very healthy conversations in the local church and has opened the door for broader conversations at the regional level....
Feb 24, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture, US Politics
Who are we? Where are we? What is the problem? What is the solution? These four questions round out the scholarly method used by N.T. Wright to examine some of the deepest questions of our faith. Wright has examined Jesus, Paul, the notion of the Kingdom of Heaven,...
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