Two Lenten Paths

A very good question has come up about Lent. Here’s an email I received a little while ago. Names have been changed to protect privacy. We really appreciate the leadership you’re providing to raise our collective and personal emphasis on the season of...

No Shortcuts

Colleagues across the country will soon be heading to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church. This body only meets every four years, and is the only structure of our denomination that can make changes to our doctrine or official stance on any issue. One...

Two Tsunamis

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...