Feb 17, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
For the past two weeks, I’ve been inspired to write about the United Methodist Church. A video from the General Board of Discipleship set the wheels in motion. In that video, a simple question was posed to key leaders in our denomination: “Where will the...
Feb 15, 2012 | Announcements, General, Methodism, Pop Culture
We are dying. Every last one of us. One inescapable fact of life is that everyone dies. “One out of one,” is the way it was put to me. But what happens when an entire generation begins to die? What happens when that generation is larger than normal? What...
Feb 10, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
Last week, I posted about some of the visions that are being shared by some of the leaders of the United Methodist Church. If you haven’t read that post, it would be helpful to do so before you continue. The United Methodist General Board of DiscipleshipThat...
Jan 21, 2012 | General, Methodism, Pop Culture
You’ve probably seen this already, the viral video about one young man’s effort to dissect his faith and remove the evil that has grown up inside it. Jefferson Bethke titles his spoken word missive, “I Hate Religion.” See it here. His goal is...
Jan 18, 2012 | General, Pop Culture, US Politics
SOPA is the “STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT” written by Representative Lamar Smith. We already have legislation that makes digital piracy a crime. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act lays out enforcement measures. The problem is enforcement. Representative...
Jan 13, 2012 | General, Methodism, Pop Culture, US Politics
Closure is something very few people understand completely. I know this because so many people ask me about it, or assume that it is always portrayed accurately in the movies and on television. So I’m going to try again here. Let me start by saying that closure...
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