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QUESTION: What is the difference between Christening and baptism?...
Join us for a little more of our conversation with Sean Steele, of Saint Isidore's Episcopal Church, as he talks about how they measure their community's impact and what he doesn't...
Steve and Scott continue their interview Dr David Lowes Watson about the history of the class leader....
Join us for a conversation with Sean Steele, priest at Saint Isidore's Episcopal Church, a network of "sacramental communities" in Houston, TX. Hear him share about the theophany t...
It happens in every church. It happens when the business of doing ministry becomes the ministry. It's when we believe the color of the carpet, the strength of our audio/visual syst...
Join us for a conversation with Jennifer Difrancesco and Jason Chesnut of the Slate Project, a hybrid online/in-person community located in Baltimore, Maryland (and around the glob...
QUESTION: Who may receive Holy Communion according to the theology and liturgy of The United Methodist Church? Only the baptized?...
When I checked the news Monday morning I was shocked, saddened, and outraged by yet another senseless mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. This one is set apart from all the others ...
QUESTION: Where did All Saints Day come from, and why do we celebrate it as we do?...
[gallery size="medium" ids="5325"] The recent shootings in the United States and the massacre of innocents around the world are shocking. The root causes behind these tragedies app...
Steve and Scott interview Dr David Lowes Watson about the history of the class leader....
September 2017
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In my last posting, I delved deeper into the contributions of Rebekah Simon-Peter’s writings that help Christian preachers avoid anti-Semitism in the pulpit. Even more important an...
QUESTION: Why is marriage not considered a sacrament in the United Methodist Church?...
If you haven’t taken a look at the new documentary by Ken Burns on The Vietnam War, I strongly encourage you to at least watch Episodes 6 and 7 which cover the tumultuous events of...
Q: Can a church member designate a tithe for a special project? This would affect our general fund. I hope you will enlighten me. A: This topic is one on which I often get question...
When asked what is the most significant event they remember from their youth, most people will answer, ‘the assassination of President Kennedy’, or ‘the challenger disaster’, or ‘9...
I was talking to my mother. I told her not to believe everything that was in the newspapers and what she sees on television because we are losing the war. I told her I might not be...
Body Counts After watching four nights of Ken Burns’s “The Vietnam War,” I feel exhausted. Everything seems to be running together as we see the continuing failure of America’s wor...
A pair of students from Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe give their thanks to the donors and share what receiving an E-reader means for their education....
General Westmoreland: “We’re killing these people at a rate of ten to one.”Senator Fritz Hollings: “Westy, the American people don’t care about the ten. They care about the one.” T...
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