Seedbed | Church Leader Podcast (Episode 28): Diversity in the Local Church
The church has been called to be a multiethnic body. On today’s podcast, we sit down with Brandon Spencer to ...
Read More
Read More
Seedbed | Why Would I Do That?
Listen Now! July 20, 2017 I am continuing my brief time away investing in my own heart, mind, body and ...
Read More
Read More
Beguine Again | God As Trump … And Vice Versa — Part 2
In last week’s “Skeptic’s Collection" column, I started out discussing the multiple reasons that monotheistic religion is fundamentally inconsistent with ...
Read More
Read More
Pastor Patrick - Never On A Sunday | Death In D Minor – A Review
Death In D MinorbyAlexia GordonA ReviewHenery Press has another winner.Gethsemane Brown is up to her ears in murder again - ...
Read More
Read More
Random Thoughts | What are our Assumptions?
Assumptions matter. They matter a great deal. There was a story I heard years ago about a physicist, a chemist, ...
Read More
Read More
United Methodist Church Pastor Poet | "Put up a parking lot"
I have just returned from vacation and from visiting friends and family back east. I was able to meet my ...
Read More
Read More
Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: A Review
By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht The study guide produced by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, entitled Unity of ...
Read More
Read More
Laurie Haller | Flourishing in Ministry
Last Friday I went for an early morning run at Centennial Park in Nashville. I was attending a three-day meeting ...
Read More
Read More
Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Responding to Misconceptions about the Bishops’ Commission
Members of the Bishops’ Commission on a Way Forward at their March meeting in Atlanta, COWF By Thomas Lambrecht The ...
Read More
Read More
Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | Why Christians shouldn’t make fun of poverty culture
The poor will always be with you–but that doesn’t make them the butt of jokes. A pair of black slacks Growing up in Oklahoma City in the 1980s/90s, I typically wore my one pair of black slacks to church. My ...
Read More
Read More
Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | The #UMC Covenant will be Stronger in #NextMethodism
Covenant Considerations As promised, here’s my contribution to the conversation about #NextMethodism (see previous coverage here–includes a partial list of entries by others). The key word over the past 8 years or so for United Methodism has been “Covenant”–as in ...
Read More
Read More
Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | As goes Mississippi, so goes The #UMC, Part Two
The followup to a previous post yields the result and the difficult road ahead. As Went Mississippi A few months back, Hacking Christianity reported and commented on two large Mississippi congregations that were petitioning to leave The United Methodist Church ...
Read More
Read More
