discipleship

Blogging as a form of Public Theology

I just spent the last couple of days in Washington, D.C. exploring what it means to be a public theologian. Over the last year, I…

I was sitting at a conference with some friends and the speaker kept lifting up the decline in membership of the United Methodist Church. One…

I have four different apps on my phone that are designed to help me get healthy and fit and lose weight. One of them…

In the last two weeks, I have been talking with a lot of folks across Iowa. I spent some time with clergy in Des Moines…

This morning in my devotion time I read from Matthew 21… the cleansing of the temple. I have been using the daily reading book from…

I knew that Imagine No Malaria was about saving lives. I knew it was about God’s mission. But the more I sit in training, the…

This summer, my church began a series exploring the work of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. One Sunday, I asked them to begin…

How many of you understand the Holy Spirit? How she works, where she blows, what exactly God is doing in our lives through the Spirit’s…