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June 2014

June 21, 2014
Part of our annual conference program each year involves a teaching study led by a...
June 21, 2014
Like many annual conferences of the United Methodist Church, the Virginia Conference is considering a...
June 12, 2014
The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting next weekend in Hampton,...
June 11, 2014
This past Sunday, I preached about the way that Pentecost represents God's rebellion against his...
June 09, 2014
God wants us to be family. That is how I understand the purpose of Jesus'...
June 07, 2014
Yes, I said her. But on Pentecost you can do that. Jesus calls the one...
June 05, 2014
Two women stood before King Solomon in 1 Kings 3:16-28 with one baby, both claiming...
June 03, 2014
I've noticed a gap between what feels right to say about the Bible in the...
June 03, 2014
For the past several years, I've been working with a metaphor that I originally got...
June 02, 2014
I need your help if you're willing to listen to 45 minutes of music while...
June 01, 2014
Nobody gets on my nerves like sanctimonious moderates. You know, the kind who are religiously...

May 2014

May 27, 2014
It seems like in United Methodism as with many things, there are unspoken rules about...
May 26, 2014
I know you're not supposed to read the manifesto of a mass murderer, but that's...
May 25, 2014
In a recent post, Peter Enns writes about a certain type of Christian who doesn't...
May 23, 2014
The United Methodist blogosphere has been fired up after a recent announcement that 80 prominent...
May 21, 2014
Yesterday morning at our church staff meeting, we read the story of Jesus' double-healing of...
May 20, 2014
I'll pray for you. How many of you have tweeted or commented that on facebook...
May 19, 2014
The evangelical twittersphere has been reverberating over the past few days with the hashtag #IStandWithSGMVictims....
May 15, 2014
If there's one thing that progressive and fundamentalist Christians demonstrate their enthusiastic agreement upon, it's...
May 14, 2014
Today I stumbled across a blog post written by a Malaysian Muslim named Farouk defending...
May 14, 2014
This past weekend, I preached on the way that Jesus' cross renews us in two...
May 13, 2014
A little more than a year ago, I discovered the music of Zach Sobiech, a...
May 12, 2014
I've gotten a little behind on my sermon podcasts again. This one is from two...
May 10, 2014
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the way that the middle-class church is being...
May 09, 2014
In a recent blog post, Asbury Theological Seminary president Timothy Tennent claimed that the real...
May 07, 2014
I stumbled across a beautiful passage in my scripture reading today: 1 Timothy 4:4-5. Paul...
May 06, 2014
The more that I think about the recent Supreme Court ruling defending the use of...
May 04, 2014
At our LifeSign contemporary worship service, our post-Easter sermon series "Resurrected" is a journey through...
May 02, 2014
I don't go out of my way to befriend fundamentalists on facebook, but because of...
May 01, 2014
One of the real poverties of our digital age is the lack of authentic constructive...
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