Rev. James Howell

A blog by Rev. Dr. James C. Howell, senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

A Message for the Church on Election Day

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   A reminder or 2 to people of faith on Election Day. God is still God, and will be tomorrow. Political ideology is our idolatry - on both ...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Complicated, Infrequent, Maddening: Reflecting on my Dad's Life and Death

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    Sigmund Freud said that the most important day in a man’s life is the day his father dies. If so, that day for me was Wednesday, July 15...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

God on Statues, Flags and Monuments

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    What does God think about statues being torn down, or preserved? I can’t say for sure. I think of Joseph Heller’s humorous thought in hi...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Jesus on Statues, Flags and Monuments

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    What does Jesus think about statues being torn down, or preserved? I can’t say for sure. I think of Joseph Heller’s humorous thought in ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

My Message on Race to my Church Family

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   As your pastor, I’ve had many questions about our church’s response to the turmoil we’re witnessing in our city and nation. We begin of...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

A Wicked Monotony: George Floyd

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There is a wicked monotony to the righteous rage sparked by unjust deaths that lights up Facebook for a few days, which then subsides after ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Beauty Will Save the World

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   The Russian novelist Dostoevsky wrote, "Only Beauty will save the world." With so much ugliness in the world, I wonder if Jewel...
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James C. Howell
I’m pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC, and I also teach preaching and ministry at Duke Divinity School as an adjunct. I write regular inspirational/ educational pieces you’ll find here, reviews of books pertinent to faith today and ministry, and I love to be part of conversations about life with God and in the world among Christians and clergy.
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