Category: Blog

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Why I Need Women in the Pulpit

This post was originally published on this blog in September 2016. I kept thinking about it as I clicked more and more links about the

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ICYMI: Fall 2019 edition

Sometimes it seems like everything you watch is a variation on a theme; maybe it’s just a season where something stands out more than others.

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God is/is not Conservative

Conservative. It’s such a loaded term these days. Every blog. Every sermon. Every prayer. Every comment. Every word is run through the conservative-liberal detecto-meter. We

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Promising to Love Prodigals

Every couple months I try to gather my parishioners who are residents in our local retirement home for a time of fellowship. There’s no agenda

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Preschool Theology III

As a pastor, I have a front row seat for communion. We practice intinction at our church, which means that each congregant tears a piece

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With My Whole Heart

I do things with my whole heart, and I can’t even help it. It really doesn’t matter what I’m doing; I am most often fully

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The Tribe Has Spoken

Fact. I love Survivor. As a kid I went to my neighbor’s house on Wednesday nights (during summer of course, when there was no church

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Transformed

Brother Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell’s recent post on The Twelve, Slouching Toward Augustine, ignited some cognitive dissonance for me. (And cognitive dissonance is good, as Steve reminded

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