Sunday, March 07, 2021

By Your Side Lord, I Will Seek Other Seas

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Lord, You have come to the lakeshore Looking neither for wealthy nor wise ones You only asked me to follow humbly O Lord, with Your eyes You...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Five Reasons Centrists and Progressives Should Support A Gracious Exit

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Recently a group of clergy (including myself) issued an open letter to General Conference delegates calling for the passage of "Graciou...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Why I'm Not Afraid of the "Gracious Exit"

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One of the reasons I ended up becoming a United Methodist Minister is that I'm not all that great at math. I can add and subtract well e...
Monday, July 18, 2016

The Bridge Is Out

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We had a professor at Miami University named B.H. Smith who started every class he taught with the same question: "Why do we study hist...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Three Thoughts And One Plea To My Traditionalist Friends In the United Methodist Church

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A couple of weeks ago, Talbot Davis on the "Ministry Matters" blog made a post entitled " A Plea To My Centrist Friends in t...
Monday, March 21, 2016

It's Late. It's Late. But not too late... for kindness?

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Was listening to internet radio when unexpectedly this song came on... It's not exactly one of Queen's bigger songs. I only kno...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Why?

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(This is a rough edit of the eulogy for Jon Andrews) As we conclude this service I just have a couple of thoughts I want to add. Promise...