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Liberty of Conscience
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A Death Cult
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4 Pillars of The Illusion
How did we ever get to this point? What pillars did we build? The churches...
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What Conservative Evangelicals Lost 6/24/2022
The evangelicals/fundamentalists lost by winning. They won a Supreme Court that overturned their great target...
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Violence is authoritarian. And authoritarianism is violence. This is demonstrated throughout history. Church can be...
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The January 6th Prayer Warriors
I am not comfortable with the term "prayer warrior." Never have been. Recalling Frank Perretti's...
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Para-Church organizations regularly abuse the Bible. It is easy to do when one has an...
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Keeping Cool While On Fire
Cool and warm are not often used the same way. Yet, a person may be...
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The Structural Racism Problem
Racism is not mentioned in the Bible. Yet, we call it sin. What makes it...
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Easter season ends with Pentecost. Often it is lost in the shuffle in church worship...
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Praying for Enemies
Am I required to pray for my enemies? Can I pray they get judged, condemned,...
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I Was In School; And You Let Me Die – Jesus
Another mass school shooting has happened. The reported numbers are 19 children and 2 adults...
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I Never Knew That Until Now
Few things are more gratifying to a pastor or teacher as a person saying, "I...
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The root of all true heresies is to assume "we" are right, true, and good...
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I am staying with The United Methodist Church. There are good reasons to remain. The...
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Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners. Everyone acknowledges this part of the story. He...
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Forward United is a gathering of traditionalist, centrist, and progressive United Methodists in my Annual...
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A friend told me she is avoiding church this week. She is making a choice...
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Divorce: Church Style
Experience teaches me that nothing stops a person who wants a divorce. Begging a person...
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The Weapons Are The Point
I watched a Senator the other day read from a list of weapons the US...
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Experience is a great teacher. This quality has come under scrutiny among many conservative Wesleyans....
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It happened yesterday. I did not see it. But some pastor or church somewhere crucified...
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Just To Give You An Idea
The guide said it over and over again. "Just to give you an idea." An...
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The controversy over the so-called "Bethany gospel" is not going away anytime soon. I decided...
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Mass Graves And Biblical Authority
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Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock is the event of the present media cycle. It...
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