Empty. #umcgc
So far at this conference I’ve been given a few nicknames. Mama-Pastor. Interloper. Bridge-builder. I feel called to be United Methodist and I have always…
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Thoughts on “UMC: Revisiting Human Sexuality”
Today, I saw an article by Rev. Dr. Steve Harper, the former Vice President and Dean of the Florida Campus of Asbury Theological Seminary…
Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Fan Fiction
Who was Mary Magdalene? A prostitute? A wealthy businesswoman? Did she wash Jesus’ feet? Was she married? to Jesus? Was she dumped at the altar…
Spirit of Discipleship
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…
rights of workers
Recently, we have wrestled in various states surrounding Iowa, and now in our own state with the rights of workers. I watched the situation unfolding…
Ezra and Nehemiah… rewriting history
In my local emergent cohort, we have been reading Phyllis Tickle’s Prayer Is a Place: America’s Religious Landscape Observed. As this book has been in…
What does “The Book” say?
This week, my husband and I borrowed a steam cleaner from his dad and we spent the past few days cleaning our carpets. They get…
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…