Friday, January 6, 2017

Going Back to Look Forward

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In the spirit of the Way Forward Commission and continuing conversation I've been reading Bishop Scott Jones' 2008 book Staying at t...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Civility in a New Day

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It was, I think, 2011. I had been at least at a portion of every annual session of the Kansas East Annual Conference of the UMC except for t...
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

An Open Letter to the Bishops' Commission: You Don't Represent Me

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Dear Commissioners, Thank you for agreeing to the task in front of you. I don't think anybody who is not among your number will ever b...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

Self-avowed, Practicing Nonsense

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No attempts at a clever introduction today. Just straight to the point. The United Methodist Church's notion of a "self-avowed, pra...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Oops. He Did it Again

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John Lomperis of the Institute for Religion and Democracy (IRD) just wrote a piece on legislation passed in July by the South Central Jurisd...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Watch Out for the WCA Pt.3

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As I start this final post on the Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA), I want to remind the reader that there should be no animosity towards...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Watch Out for the WCA Pt. 2

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This is Part 2 of a short series on the new Wesleyan Covenant Association  (WCA). In the first part we examined what the WCA's Statement...