Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 1
In our final year at Vanderbilt Divinity School, we work on the crowning glory of our graduate work: our seminar paper. As I sat down…
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Sources of Revelation
The United Methodist Church holds that Scripture, tradition, experience, and reason are sources and norms for belief and practice, but that the Bible is primary…
what kind of shepherd will I be?
Earlier this week I found the Internet Monk blog and in particular this article about sermons. Most of what was said was very helpful advice,…
Moltmann Conversation – Notes from Opening with John Franke
1. Job of theology – what is God doing in the world today? in the church today?2. Have you ever noticed Christians don’t and have…
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Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
This morning one of our small groups met and I started Joyce Rupp’s “The Cup of Our Lives” with them. It thought it went really…
Lectionary Leanings
The second installment of my articles for the Circuit Rider: December 7Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13,II Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8Anticipation is not an emotion that…
Advent Conspiracy
My friend Matt posted over at his blog “The Truth As Best I Know It” about the supposed war on Christmas and the Advent Consipracy….