Developing as a Congregation and Community
Nope – Not Funny
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When Pope Benedict retired, I made an off-handed joke that the church should elect me pope. It was obviously a ...
Read More When Churches Bait and Switch
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Our family used to occasionally go to a beautiful Florida island for vacation in the summer. We went in the ...
Read More Just Say No to Nazis
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I was the very part-time chaplain at Albright College - a United Methodist Church related college - from 1994 to ...
Read More Modern Idolatry
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Every year during Holy Week we read about Pontius Pilate, the governor who put Jesus to death. Historically, Pilate is ...
Read More Love, Not Fear
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I'm not going to lie - religion can be scary. For as long as humans have wondered where thunder and ...
Read More Love, not Hate
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Pope Francis has died, and the world is in mourning. We didn't have to agree with everything he ever said ...
Read More Becoming the Church, Part 3
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In the Gospel of Matthew, the end of the 25th chapter, Jesus does something shocking - He sends people who ...
Read More Becoming the Church, Part 2
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As Jesus stood before Pilate, Pilate asked if He was a king. Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not from this ...
Read More Becoming the Church
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Some conversations stay with me forever. This one happened almost 40 years ago in the county I grew up in. ...
Read More Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
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I read this morning that almost 1,200 international students and recent graduates have been identified for deportation by the State ...
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