A Different Nativity — or Is It?

Dec 18, 2012 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture

  I’m a social media junkie. When I cruise through Facebook and Twitter, I feel like John Wesley on a digital destrier, riding from village to village with good news, learning about the people of that hamlet, and providing presence albeit in a limited form....

Doing What We Can

Dec 17, 2012 | Leading the Church, Methodism

I just left a Finance Committee Meeting for Grace UMC, the church I’m presently serving. And I just witnessed a very admirable act. “Heroic” is a little too strong a word, but not by too much. Let me offer some background. Grace has had some...

“Would You Know Him If You Saw Him?”

Dec 15, 2012 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture

A couple of days ago, I was at the church when one of our volunteers came by. She was there to pick up a load of toys for the Angel Tree charity we’re supporting this year. With her were six teen-agers, all boys, who were ready to help. As we carried bags out to...

Dave Brubeck Says Hello

Dec 6, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture

Yesterday marked the passing of one of my heroes. Dave Brubeck was just shy of his 92nd birthday, and a phenomenal influence on musicians of every caliber and genre. He was an arranger par excellance and did almost perfectly what I talked about in a recent blog piece...