Sunday, September 8, 2019

Methodist Slime, Scum, Sloths and Slugs

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    I’m one who has urged us United Methodists to be generous listeners, and full of love and respect even when we disagree strongly on homo...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

"I Dreamed a Dream" of the United Methodist Church

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       “When the Lord restores Zion’s fortunes, we should be like dreamers” (Psalm 126:1, in Robert Alter’s translation). I’ve been dreaming...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

How LBJ's Biographer is Helping my Preaching

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     I continue learning how to preach from unlikely tutors. Robert Caro, the Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, ...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Religion News Service Op-Ed

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Religion News Service invited me to write an op-ed  reflecting on General Conference. It has some fresh stuff I've not put here before. ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

What now that the vote is past?

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The Traditional Plan just passed by a vote of 438 to 384. I am not shocked, but deeply disappointed. A few observations:   (1) "Tradi...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Where We Are Now at General Conference

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     A conference like this is hard work, with an intensity of emotion, and added pressure that this work is for God – and so I am so very g...

A Disappointing Day - and a Promise

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     Last time General Conference met, I wrote a blog that went semi-viral entitled Thank God General Conference Is Not the Church. The Chur...