I recently received the following letter from a young United Methodist pastor who was raising questions related to some of the views expressed in my new book, Seeing Gray. I don’t usually have time to respond to each person who writes, but I felt the exchange between us might be helpful to a broader [...]
In Luke 4 and 5 we see Jesus’ public ministry expanding. Crowds begin to follow him. Multitudes come to hear him. The sick come out in droves to be healed by him. He gives himself to all of these people. He touches, heals and blesses them. But this will [...]
I began blogging in late December as a kind of experiment. My hope was that this would be a forum where people would contribute to rich discourse on a variety of subjects, and where Christians who identify with the ideas of Seeing Gray would pursue what Wesley called, “Christian conferencing.” I [...]
In the light of the cyclone that has hit Myanmar, and the tragic loss of life, General Conference seems somehow less important that it did last Friday. Before reading my final post about General Conference I would invite you to pause to pray for the people of Myanmar who have lost loved ones. [...]
Much of the day yesterday at General Conference was focused on petitions related to human sexuality and specifically on the church’s policies related to homosexuals. Throughout the conference demonstrators and sympathetic delegates demonstrated and rallied, asking the church to change its current prohibition against “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” being ordained, serving as pastors, and prohibitions [...]
