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May 2020

May 11, 2020
I remember the first time I was told I had "a pastor's heart." It was...
May 07, 2020
The meme world maintains that the Church is never closed. The building is closed. The...
May 04, 2020
I teach Bible studies. That's not a big surprise considering I am a pastor. Each...

April 2020

April 30, 2020
Christians make bad proclamations out of good observations. St. Paul's famous observation from Romans 6:23,...
April 27, 2020
I have a question for everyone who thinks about divine judgment. What do you believe...
April 25, 2020
This is an announcement of an interview I am giving this week. I will be...
April 22, 2020
Good morning, God. Hear my prayer. It's April 22nd. We are commemorating the first Earth...
April 20, 2020
A community Easter egg hunt is an interesting example of commutative justice. Okay. Hold your...
April 16, 2020
Alfred Nobel never endowed a prize for mathematics. Legend has it his mistress left him...
April 13, 2020
I once saw a funny meme on a T-shirt. It read, "on the eighth day...
April 09, 2020
Jesus said to the disciples, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one...
April 06, 2020
Holy Week is the time we remember all of the events of the last week...
April 04, 2020
Our group stood on a catwalk looking over the restored floor on an ancient house...
April 02, 2020
Lent is almost over. Palm Sunday is almost here. The Easter Season is coming next....

March 2020

March 30, 2020
The panic has returned. Wendell Berry's title character in Jayber Crow says from time to time...
March 27, 2020
Recent events have reminded us that facts are important. Indeed, the very importance of truth...
March 23, 2020
The New Testament writers understood the importance of social stability. The letters of Ss. Peter...
March 19, 2020
Early in 1991, the telephone in the church parsonage rang. The senior minister answered the...
March 17, 2020
I am tempted to despair in this time of global pandemic. I see a denial...

February 2020

February 26, 2020
Imposing ashes is one of the distinctive attributes of Western Christianity. It is the beginning...
February 24, 2020
Transfiguration Sunday has passed. St. Peter reminds us that the world is becoming new. The...
February 20, 2020
What is a pastor? It is commonplace to define the words minister, pastor, evangelist, and...
February 10, 2020
"I had no idea?" The statement above is one I have heard many times since...

January 2020

January 27, 2020
I find from time to time that I ask an old question. What kind of...
January 22, 2020
I opened my copy of Common Prayer this morning. The heading for this date concerns the...
January 16, 2020
I was glad to hear my Annual Conference was offering grants to congregations to aid...
January 14, 2020
I worked with a master carpenter. No, I wasn't his apprentice. He worked in a...
January 07, 2020
The Baptism of the Lord is celebrated the first Sunday after the beginning of Epiphany....

December 2019

December 30, 2019
I like Adam Sandler's song about Hanukkah. I really like the line about it being...
December 26, 2019
A recent blog post here titled "The Crisis of The United Methodist Church" brought some...
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