Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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The Importance of Silence
Discovered this in one of the books for my doctoral program, Pathways to Spiritual Living by Dr. Susan Muto: Everyone needs silence: the teacher, the nurse, the social worker; the artist, the poet, the doctor; the lawyer, the housewife, the cabdriver. To neglect this need is to risk living a tense, fragmented, spiritless life. Formation…
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More and More Convinced
I am being more and more convinced that the best route for the UMC would be to do two things: 1) Get rid of membership. 2) Stop asking for church statistics. I write these things because I believe if we stopped doing those two things, we would have to revisit what it means to be…
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Missional Thoughts
As I continue to study the missional church I find myself believing that this is what “church” is meant to be. At the core, being missional is understanding and believing that you are “sent.” (See John 20:21). Yet, I find most of the time my tradition focuses on making disciples (Matt 28:19-20) while overlooking the…
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Understanding Modernity
The urgent need is for Christians to debate and become aware of the nature of modernity. Too easily they have accepted the good things which are available wthout being aware of the erosions of Christian faith and truth which are taking place. Jesus rebuked those who could not understand this present time. What is needed…
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A sign
On my way through Kentucky I saw this on a church sign near Lexington: “Christians make good citizens” What does this sign say about the church? About our nation? About God’s call? What cultural issues does this statement impact?
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Shell says biofuels from food crops
Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” – Yahoo! News Here’s something that has never crossed my mind. A producer of biofuel believes that using food (I’m guessing corn) to create fuel is morally wrong. The argument is, if there are people without food, using the food we do have to create fuel isn’t…