For the last month or so, we have been reading Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. In prison, sick, struggling, shipwrecked, he just hasn’t had the time or resources to make it to Rome personally, so this letter contains everything that he thinks those people of faith in Rome need to know. He wants…
Knowledge and knowledge
Many have been discussing lately social media monitoring of clergy and candidates/ordinands. A post by sheyduck on Everyday Theology got me thinking about my one hesitancy regarding the issue.As I posted there… There is a tendency of some who do not understand social media, to use it as an evaluation method, rather than understanding online discussions as…
pre-vacation lame duck session
It is absolutely impossible to work when you know you are going on vacation in four short days. All I can think about are the last minute things I need to purchase and the laundry I need to do and the things that need packed. image by: getupgirl Add to the top of that, the…
LIFE in the Spirit
I woke up this morning, and literally, almost, could not physically get out of bed! Yesterday, my husband and I cleaned the exterior of our cars. No… cleaned isn’t quite the right word. We scrubbed and polished and waxed and buffed our cars. And let me tell you… my car needed it. As we started…
It is SUPPOSED to be Hard
“Late in World War II a large number of American and British soldiers were languishing in a war camp deep inside Germany. Some had been there for many months. A high barbed-wire fence ran across the center of the camp, isolating the two sets of prisoners. They were not allowed to go near the fence…
A summer of confession and struggle and hope
I have decided to journey through the book of Romans with my church folks this summer. a) it’s the lectionary b) I haven’t spent that much time with Romans before c) it is fitting in nicely with our visioning process d) it has absolutely positively hit me right in the gut and there is A…
understanding ritual
Today I get to co-officiate my first inter-denominational wedding. Well, that may not be completely true. There have been plenty of folks from different protestant and even different Christian backgrounds who have married under my authority. But each couple chose to go with the Methodist order and flow and style… their traditions weren’t so important,…
Was John Wesley a Deacon?
Through John Meunier, I was directed to “Four John Wesley quotes everyone should know” by John Pedlar. They are good quotes, and ones that, as a student of Methodist history and theology, I knew well. But as John shares, James shares an important insight at the end of his piece. It is in response to…