I’m reading an excellent book this week entitled, unChristian, by Kinnaman and Lyons. It looks at why so many young adults have turned away from Christianity. More on the answer to that question later. For now I’d like to pick up one of the few comments in the book with which I […]
Yesterday the news was abuzz with Dr. James Dobson’s comments, broadcast on his daily radio show Focus on the Family, concerning Barack Obama. Dobson was commenting on a 2006 speech Obama made regarding his own faith and the role of faith in politics. Last night I went back and listened to the entire […]
At the end of May I started a project that will not be completed for six or seven years. Over the next six or seven years we hope to provide a leadership, preaching and evangelism training program for all 16,000 United Methodist clergy and at least one layperson from all 32,000+ United Methodist churches. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
