Monday, May 15, 2023

On Being a Patient: My 2 Week Hospital Stay

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   Given my profession, a place I often go is the hospital, where I’ve spent countless hours and much love, care and tears. Never though, u...
Monday, December 12, 2022

To my Disaffiliating Friends: Don't Believe What You've Been Told

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      I was stunned, then I just shuddered and sighed the other day when I read an email from a member of a disaffiliating Methodist church ...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Pilgrimage to Turkey, September 2023

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Join me as we return with yet another group to visit ancient Asia Minor, modern Turkey, the historic birthplace of worldwide Christianity! W...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Christ was born!... so Methodists could vote?

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       This morning, I woke up remembering how often I’ve said “A virtue of Methodism is it’s not in our DNA to wake up in the morning and t...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Hope: Saving 1 Life. A sermon preached in Krakow, Sept. 25, 2022

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    Watch here . Text below.     Jeremiah 32, beginning with verse 1. “ The word that came to Jeremiah from the  Lord  in the tenth year of ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Young Karl Barth Preaching, Offending and Reassessing

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       I laughed out loud a few times while reading Christiane Tietz’s wonderful new biography of Karl Barth. Once was during her recounting...
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 ...