Today we celebrate Pentecost, which is a day that people from many nations heard words of hope to share together in a new experience of humanity. This is not a hope the world offers or a hope the world can … Continue reading
There’s a tendency in human thinking to assume that knowledge tends toward a binary: either right or wrong, good or bad, left or right, we are helping or we are hurting, us versus them. There can be nuances within broad … Continue reading
I value that Juneteenth is getting a lot more broader attention these days. It’s a really important day in American history, not so much this particular day (which was when the Emancipation Proclamation became applied in Texas) but as part … Continue reading
The cross is everywhere in our culture. The legacy of many centuries of Christendom, where it was a marker of faith, then became a marker of culture, ethnicity, power. A symbol of rejection and punishment becomes the marker of acceptability. … Continue reading
After teaching online for a number of years, it became very clear to me that a significant weakness every quarter was the quality of my lecture and announcement videos. I had little to no video editing experience, and while I … Continue reading
The scandal of suggesting that oppressors need hope is built on the idea that oppressors already have what they want and are preventing others from getting it. There’s a lot wrong with that assumption, and throughout my book Hope for … Continue reading
From what I can figure, I’ve been dealing with clinical depression for about 35 years. I started taking an anti-depressant for the first time in mid-October. I’m taking an anti-depressant because of the faith I have in Christ and the … Continue reading
Part of our whirlwind tour the last couple of weeks was visiting the church I attended and worked at for a number of years. The pastor, Grant Myles-Era, offered a wonderful sermon on participation in church and community. He’s … Continue reading
This quarter, I’m teaching a couple classes and leading a couple students through independent directed readings. One student is focused on transformative Christology and the other student on global Methodist/Wesleyan theologies. I’m teaching a class on Practices of Christian Worship … Continue reading
This past Sunday, I preached on the topic of the Holy Spirit, seeing how the work of the Spirit in the Old Testament leads into how we understand the work of the Spirit in the New Testament. Which leads in … Continue reading
