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Listen Now! July 28, 2017 Hello Friends. Let’s give a round of applause to Omar for his fine work these ...
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Sometimes it is the simple things. Today as I was driving my usual route and merging onto the freeway, a ...
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I’ve not yet commented publicly on the issue of taking down Confederate monuments in Dallas, but I did sign one ...
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I’m back from vacation! I wrote the following for our church’s weekly e-newsletter: My family and I returned late Wednesday ...
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It was Saturday evening and I was sitting at home with not much left to do. I could dive into ...
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In this text from Matthew, Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a field where both wheat and weeds are ...
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Team convenors for revision of the United Methodist Social Principles met in May with Church and Society staff to begin ...
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By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht The study guide produced by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, entitled Unity of ...
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Last Friday I went for an early morning run at Centennial Park in Nashville. I was attending a three-day meeting ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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