I’ve been in several ongoing conversations lately regarding “what the Bible has to say” about a range of topics...everything from gender roles and sexual orientation to church leadership and governance, and lots of stuff in between. Now, I must say from the outset that most of these conversations are among good, genuine, loving, open people. … Continue reading Take my word for it
Rambles
Catching up…and slowing down
Sometimes we all need a catch-up day...one of those days when you go through the backlog correspondence, work assignments, unread articles and unfiled paperwork and just get back on top of it all. Today is catch-up day for the Faithrants.com blog. If you follow regularly, you know I had been blogging through a shared Lenten activity … Continue reading Catching up…and slowing down
Back to school!
Well after a long (6 week) semester break, it's back to the books for my second semester of studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. While that's certain to mean a reduction in my bloggable time (hence the 6 days since my last post), I hope it will generate some ideas to share here and ignite some … Continue reading Back to school!
Looking back through the mirror…
Last weekend I attended my 30-year high school reunion. Reunions of any kind...classes, families, organizational, etc....have always been sort of strange to me. You gather with a bunch of people with whom you have some connection but rarely see, catch up on what everyone's been doing since the last time you all got together, and … Continue reading Looking back through the mirror…
The discipline of discipline
Yesterday's post about just sitting down to write in order to allow my self to start writing caused me to think deeper about the whole issue of discipline...how we make ourselves do the things we need to do. "Discipline" is not a fun word for us in our current cultural context. It denotes a surrender … Continue reading The discipline of discipline
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