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January 2025

January 05, 2025

Epiphany: Grace Beyond Borders and Traditions

(This post is from my sermon for January 5th based on Ephesians 3:1-12) Epiphany is...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

God, Country, And The Great UMC Fracture

I was glad the theater seat was comfortable. The documentary I watched was not. God...

October 2023

October 04, 2023

Reaffiliation? Not So Fast

First, let me say I am not slamming the door on future reaffiliation. The people...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Communing With Judas

It is a common holy week theme. Can you sit with your Judas? Do we...

February 2023

February 16, 2023

Populist Religion

People forget George Wallace was a populist. He is known as a white racist segregationist...

January 2023

January 06, 2023

Christian Nationalism Is Not Christian

Two years ago, I started to write my outrage and feelings about white nationalism and...

October 2022

October 11, 2022

Forgive Us Our Debts

Comparing sins to debts in Christian teaching and preaching is not as common as it...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

4 Reasons I Am Staying UMC

I am staying with The United Methodist Church. There are good reasons to remain. The...

May 10, 2022

Forward United

Forward United is a gathering of traditionalist, centrist, and progressive United Methodists in my Annual...

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Virtue and Experience

Experience is a great teacher. This quality has come under scrutiny among many conservative Wesleyans....

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Christians Being Bad

Christians being bad is a common theme for bloggers. A few public examples come to...

January 10, 2022

Forgiveness And The Future Schism (Part 3)

This final installment in this series will sound harsh to some. But forgiveness is not...

October 2021

October 14, 2021

Mission Without Meditation

We all agreed what we needed in our Annual Conference is a renewed sense of...

October 11, 2021

The Essential Workers Revolt

The first sign of revolt was at the garden center. I stood in a long...

October 07, 2021

The Desire to Recover Misses the Point

Will we recover? This is THE QUESTION every congregation is asking right now. Once the...

August 2021

August 23, 2021

The Wesleyan Commission of Anxiety

I want to talk about the Wesleyan Covenant Association. The organization claims to be grounded...

July 2021

July 07, 2021

4 Spiritual Foundations

Spirituality is either a practice or a desire. People can claim to be "spiritual rather...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Fragility Of The Social Fabric

There is more evidence of the fragility of the American social fabric. It is the...

May 06, 2021

Faith Of A Child

Child-like faith is not the same as childish faith. There is a lot of that...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

The Excluding Mind

Is being inclusive a virtue? If so what does excluding other people mean? Is it...

February 2021

February 08, 2021

Google Jesus

The instructions were simple. "Google Jesus," it said. In the South we are used to...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

Business As Usual And The New President

Americans seem to loathe the phrase "business as usual." I am not sure which word...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

Vote Like Wesley

United Methodists vote in ways pollsters hate. We are not so much bound by a...