Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Discouragement, Disillusionment, and the Future of the UMC

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It is discouraging to be a United Methodist pastor right now.  Not only are we suffering from the same trends affecting all of Mainline Prot...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

The Way Forward: Humility as an Intellectual Virtue

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A week from now 864 delegates, hundreds of alternates, thousands of support staff, and tens of thousands of demonstrators will invade St. Lo...
Friday, November 30, 2018

I am Disqualified.

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Today, if you were on the West Ohio emailing list, you received a 'time sensitive' email about nominations for General Conference 20...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

To marginalize or Not to Marginalize: Why the One Church Plan is (still) the worst possible option for GC 2019

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Can you imagine what would happen if an annual conference decided that it would refuse to ordain candidates of color? (Or a bishop refused a...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The Craziest Thing

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This evening at dinner I was watching the Yankees and the Red Sox and the craziest thing happened.  In the bottom of the second inning, the ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

UMC Disagreement: It's Worse than You Think it is

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If you are reading this, you are surely aware of some of the challenges facing the United Methodist Church.  In the popular spheres of media...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Love as Lip Service and the Divide in the UMC

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Last night I was scrolling through my social media feed and one of my "friends" (who I have never met, but with whom I am a co-lab...