What happened to the standing Committee on Faith and Order, established, I think, by the 2008 General Conference? I looked at several UM websites to see what I could dig up and found precious little, except for announcements about the
Those Pesky Passions
I recently published a book on spiritual maturity and I’m going try to develop the habit of blogging regularly about themes related to the book. This post is one and it touches on a very personal struggle. I continue to
A Biblical View that Lays to Rest an Old Methodist Division
N.T. Wright writes faster than I can read. Having relished a few of his other works, I sat down with his new How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, (HarperOne, 2012). I’m not finished and I’ve been trying
Why I Love Books (the real paper variety)
I just got my most recent copy of Christian Century and opened it to find the interview with Warren Farha. Warren owns and operates Eighth Day Books in Wichita, Kansas. With waves of nostalgia wafting over me, I read the
Barnes & Noble Reality Check
The Sunday after Christmas, I was browsing the religion section at a Barnes & Noble in Oklahoma City. The “Christian Inspiration” shelves were a hodgepodge of darn near anything, going light years beyond what I think of as inspirational. Some