Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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What If The Story was Different?
As I was pondering the account of Joseph (or the story of Joseph) in Genesis 39, I started wondering, what would have happened if Joseph would have given in to Potiphar’s wife’s advances? After all, by not giving in and thus standing up for what was right he ended up in prision. How different would…
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They Like Jesus
And here we are getting at the root of the matter. A Jesus who does not look like us, doesn’t talk like us, doesn’t dress like us, and lives according to a different culture is alien to us. He is very hard to identify with. Instead of changing ourselves into an image more like…
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Biblical Scholarship….
From time to time I’ve struggled with scholarship. Now, I find myself in a doctoral program where, you guessed it, I have to deal with scholarly material. Part of my struggle has been because the Bible seems like such a short, in many ways, book. After all, it has been around for a very long…
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Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt
Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt That is what was said in an interview on the Web 2.0 show. I know a show about the web, isn’t about the church, yet, it seems, like businesses see trends in society before the church notices them. The comment causes me to think of postmodernism…
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Week One Almost Done…
I'm still processing everything I've learned this week. The class was on Biblical Interpretation and it was very good. Apparently historical criticism has moved down a notch or two on the biblical interpretation scale. The approach that was taught was a heuristic approach. The methodology is to read, re-read, re-read and read again while generating…
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ABCs of success
One of the problems I have with the church growth movement is that it adopted methods with the assumption that methods are value neutral. This is false: some methods by their very nature distort the message. Focusing on method we bought uncritically into worldly assumptions about how the world works. Most insidious of these…