Voices are clamoring for a split in the United Methodist Church, with an increasing urgency given many recent events, most notably an episcopal election in the West. I was myself… read more

The human mind can’t process all this news. We feel dazed. A knot in the stomach. A kind of dark cloud has settled over the country. Orlando. Alton Sterling. Dallas… read more

Encountering Luke Jesus’ teaching in Luke 15 bowls us over. In a world that knows deserving and entitlement, we are confronted with a storyteller who is either uninterested… read more

Sunday. The Lord’s day. On the way to church, or right after, we were mortified by the news out of Orlando. Another mass killing. How many? We’ve lost count. The ache, … read more

Encountering Luke When we read or hear the temptation story, we need to try to clear the clutter from the mind’s table and look carefully at what is reported, as if hearing… read more

I found myself in a conversation with some younger and some older clergy the other day about Facebook exposure. Do we have FB friends in the congregation? What do they see online… read more