Awhile back, I wrote about being a “hyphenated,” a term I picked up from Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence. According to Tickle, massive changes in media the past 30 years are causing American Christians to live in much closer “subjective
Awhile back, I wrote about being a “hyphenated,” a term I picked up from Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence. According to Tickle, massive changes in media the past 30 years are causing American Christians to live in much closer “subjective
We just finished Builders in Ministry Week at Southwestern College. It is our third annual and we’re excited about how this event is developing. (Next year, it’s scheduled for February 23-25. I hope you’ll consider coming.) Our featured speaker this
For a long time, I’ve fretted over our United Methodist denominational divisions. We suffer from competing interests. In part, they are regional, geographical and cultural, but the ones we most often discuss are theological. Those theological differences, when you
As a member of a so-called mainline denomination, I have been experiencing – on behalf of (United Methodist ) Mother Church – something like a reverse vicarious identity crisis. It’s really not cool to be a mainliner these days. To
A couple of times recently, I’ve listened to “what the Bible says” conversations that have left me scratching my head. Today’s Sunday School lesson (written by a well-known author/pastor) dealt with personal affliction and God’s glory and used an excerpt