Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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They Like Jesus
And here we are getting at the root of the matter. A Jesus who does not look like us, doesn’t talk like us, doesn’t dress like us, and lives according to a different culture is alien to us. He is very hard to identify with. Instead of changing ourselves into an image more like…
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Biblical Scholarship….
From time to time I’ve struggled with scholarship. Now, I find myself in a doctoral program where, you guessed it, I have to deal with scholarly material. Part of my struggle has been because the Bible seems like such a short, in many ways, book. After all, it has been around for a very long…
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Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt
Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt That is what was said in an interview on the Web 2.0 show. I know a show about the web, isn’t about the church, yet, it seems, like businesses see trends in society before the church notices them. The comment causes me to think of postmodernism…
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Week One Almost Done…
I'm still processing everything I've learned this week. The class was on Biblical Interpretation and it was very good. Apparently historical criticism has moved down a notch or two on the biblical interpretation scale. The approach that was taught was a heuristic approach. The methodology is to read, re-read, re-read and read again while generating…
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ABCs of success
One of the problems I have with the church growth movement is that it adopted methods with the assumption that methods are value neutral. This is false: some methods by their very nature distort the message. Focusing on method we bought uncritically into worldly assumptions about how the world works. Most insidious of these…
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Beginning Doctoral Studies
This Friday I head to Wilmore, KY to begin my doctoral studies. I’m looking forward to it, but still apprehensive. I do feel led of God to begin this journey, while knowing how subjective ‘leadings’ can be. I plan to continue updating this site with progress, thoughts, etc. I realize that I’m not going to…