“A Plea to my Centrist Friends,” posted on March 29, 2016, is a cry for those who rest in the center of the church’s debate on human sexuality to maintain the current United Methodist teachings on human sexuality found within the current United Methodist Book of Discipline. I believe the large umbrella of The… Read more »
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5 Proverbial Tweets
2 Billion people across the globe are connected to each other via some form of online social media. Whether it is Facebook statuses or Twitter tweets or Snapchat chats or Vine videos or Pinterest, Feedly, Instagram, Tinder, LinkedIn…we are certainly connected. The art of navigating social media is a crucial gift moving forward in today’s… Read more »
Holy Land Day Two
“Spring,” by Vivaldi is a beautiful movement of music. It’s light and happy. It’s adds a spring to your step…unless it’s screaming at you from the phone receiver, breaking your coma-like sleep. It’s like a tall and beautiful sunflower which catches the wind and thumps you in the face. Let’s say, it took a bit… Read more »
Look, Up in the Sky, Ascension Sunday
It’s contagious, isn’t it, when someone looks inquisitively into the sky? You can’t help but use your hand as a visor and peer into the blue hoping to see something miraculous, dangerous, or fascinating. After Jesus tells the disciples that they will receive the power of the Holy Spirit, he is taken up into the… Read more »
Being the Church, Rev. Matt Rawle
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Being the church Rev. Matt Rawle There’s nothing like the church. It is a place where strangers are welcomed, the hungry are fed, a holy community is formed, and where Jesus promises to be present. There’s nothing like the church. It’s a place where Christians shun strangers, hold onto to self-preserving… Read more »
Guns in Church
Recently Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed House Bill no. 1272 into law, which allows concealed firearms in places of worship. I can’t say it any better, so I’m going to offer the words of Bishop William Hutchinson: