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Back to Blogging

My apologies for taking leave of blogging for several weeks. I know that’s bad form in the blogosphere but I came to a point where I was out of gas and running on empty. It’s been a crazy few weeks - exciting, exhilarating and exhausting. I’ll give you a thumbnail and then […]

American Idol: Who Do You Love?

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Love and Marriage

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Sex in the City

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Holiness, Conflict and Love

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I Corinthians 13 and Seeing Gray

An apology to readers for stepping away from this blog for the last week. Graduations, family vacation, the launch of a new effort at leadership development and, yesterday, seeing our oldest daughter off to South Africa where she’ll spend the summer in mission with HIV/AIDS victims and refugees - all meant the blog had […]

Letter from a Young Pastor

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 […]

And Jesus Went to a Quiet Place to Pray

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 […]

Turning Off the Comments

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 […]

The Secret to a Long Life

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