The other day I was reading an article from one of the religion news sources and read with interest a piece about current battles going on in one of the large christian denominations in the USA. It stepped through several … Continue reading
Did you ever hear, “I’m hungry for a good bible study!” Or, “I just want to do a bible study. It’s been so long.” Or maybe, “Does your church do real bible study? I’m just not getting fed in our … Continue reading
This past Sunday I was with a congregation where we were reading Mark 1 and thinking about “Wilderness.” We noticed the Gospel writer reminded us that the prophets spoke about the wilderness, that John’s “pulpit” was in the wilderness, that … Continue reading
Let’s follow up on our thinking about “walls” with this from M. Scott Peck (found in The Different Drum), Community requires the confession of brokenness. But how remarkable it is that in our culture brokenness must be “confessed.” We think of confession as … Continue reading
Last week we heard Madeleine L’Engle warn us of the walls we can allow to be created between us and others. In part she wrote, “The house of God … is a cross where time and eternity meet, and where we are – … Continue reading
Madeleine L’Engle has written, “Sometimes the very walls of our churches separate us from God and each other. In our various naves and sanctuaries we are safely separated from those outside, from other denominations, other religions, separated from the poor, the ugly, the … Continue reading
Let me encourage you to read Rachel Held Evans blog post “The Table.” http://rachelheldevans.com/blog/the-table-michael-curry And for starters today, let me give you a small head start, “Participation in the Lord’s Supper is an inherently moral act. In thefirst century church, … Continue reading
The past few weeks I have been thinking about when we prayer together and recently these remarks by Thomas R. Steaglad from A House of Prayer: The Power of Praying in Community found their way to my inbox, Why do so … Continue reading
It seems for me “community” is the theme for this Lent. Everyplace, in email, on the internet, in conversations, the topic keeps coming up. Please allow me to share with you a few sentences from a post I recently came … Continue reading
The other day I came across this quote from Georges Florovsky (a twentieth century Russian theologian), Christianity entered history as a new social order, or rather a new social dimension. From the very beginning Christianity was not primarily a ‘doctrine,’ … Continue reading
