Annual Conferences are just around the corner all over the USA and there will be petitions submitted to annual conferences suggesting something along the lines of a local church option when it comes to defining what counts as Christian marriage, what counts as proper sexual morality, what counts as moral fitness for ordination. It is no use denying our beloved and belabored Methodist Church is in a crisis, but neither of the local church options that are currently being noised... Read more

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Paul Doherty is frankly an expert in medieval British history. And if you ever wanted to understand the life and times of that chaotic era in British history, reading his Hugh Corbett novels is an easy way to ease yourself into that labyrinth. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and dining with Paul while in London, and frankly prolific is too small a word to describe his ouevre. He’s written over 100 novels in 13 different series and various stand... Read more

Perhaps you don’t know beans about humans. But coffee is the original Christian beverage, invented in an Ethiopian monastery with Yirgacheffe beans. See the Nat Geo special ‘From Beans to Buzz’. Quiz question where did the name cappuccino come from? A. From the Cappuchin monks who made coffee that way (and the color of the beverage was the same as the color of their robes). Read more

James Sire’s book Habits of the Mind can be commended to one and all. Here is a quote from this fine book—- “When loving the truth is quite out of fashion, as it is at present, the very mention of the word can call up hatred. Veritas otium Parit, said the Roman poet Terence –truth engenders hatred. The desire to flee truth is deep, deep in human nature, and that fact is not obscure to anyone.” It is one of... Read more

Here’s a small quote from my forthcoming capstone work entitled Convergence. See what you think—- BW3 Doing Biblical theology is not an exercise in pushing theological ideas around a pre-existing theological playing board. It is also not an exercise in reading later theological ideas back into the Biblical text, for instance the idea of the later distinction between God’s being and his doing, or the later fuller description of the Holy Trinity. The raw data for the construction of a... Read more

So, I hopped on my bike and made a little trek down to Vandy to give a couple of lectures…. Whilst lecturing down at Vandy, I was at a friends house where the following picture was hanging on the wall….. This house also featured a frog driven to drink by the bowdlerization of the ten commandments…. You never know what those Nashville cats will be up to next (cue John Sebastian and the Loving Spoonful). Read more

You turn the corner in the Corvette museum…. and there is a poster of Jesse James. No… he didn’t steal a Corvette, but he did rob the Bowling Green stagecoach…… Maybe it was one that looks like this. Meanwhile back to the actual subject of this museum….. Just when you thought it had ceased being weird…. then we are told that the Russians had something to do with the creation of the Corvette….. (no this is not fake news). See... Read more

Whilst at the Corvette museum one can: 1) take a ride in a vintage Corvette for 10 bucks, or 2) sit in a brand new one for free….. which option I took, of course. That’s me steering. I actually preferred a different color Vette, and so I bought a 1957 Carolina Blue Corvette roadster, for only $8.00. Voila!! Now about this museum. In fact Corvettes came into being in 1953, a mere two years after me. They were originally made... Read more

Perhaps you recognize that sight you can see just off I-65 in Bowling Green Kentucky. It’s the symbol of the Corvette Museum which resides there. You’ll notice the sinkhole right behind the museum. They had their own sinkhole experience in 2014 when the floor caved in under that locale, and swallowed up various vintage Corvettes (though not Prince’s Little Red Corvette). Here for example is one of the victimized vehicles after it was extracted—- And here is another—- In an... Read more