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The Social Creed, 100 years later
100 years ago, the Methodist Episcopal Church put forth a Social Creed. It was a statement of solidarity with the millions of victims of the industrial revolution. During a time of unchecked...
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Fixing the Skandal
A few weeks ago, my friend and colleague Will Deuel had a series of posts on his blog, “A Man Called Preach.” His series of posts about the Skand-lous mission of the Board of Ordained Minstry created...
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Hii does. Do Wii?
Do we really? Last week at annual conference I bought a shirt that read, “Hii welcomes all of His children.” Next to those words was a picture of Jesus that looked like a Nintendo Wii character (or...
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Thinking about Chicken and Church
The United Methodist Church has come out with a new marketing campaign. You may have seen one of the commercials. “RETHINK CHURCH” they declare. The idea is to think of church as a verb instead of a...
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Top 5 questions for #6qumc
One mission Three simple rules Four areas of focus Five practices. And now… Six questions. An intriguing new social-network based campaign by the United Methodist Church is 6 Questions. I am not sure...
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Partners in Hope
This is a video I put together with pictures I found on the internet plus my pictures and videos from my recent trip to Liberia.
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Vote for Me!
A few weeks ago I threw my name into the hat to be elected to be a delegate for General Conference. At the time, I figured it was worth a shot. All it took was a 100-word essay and a picture. It was...
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My hope rests
The United Methodist Church is dying. I have heard the numbers, and they don’t lie. I’m not going to quote them here, but trust me. The numbers aren’t pretty. And it’s not just the United Methodist...
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“Welcome to beautiful West Point”
These pictures of are of the John Kofi Asmah School in the West Point community of Monrovia, Liberia. On the left was the project as my group left it in February 2011. The picture on the right was...
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There will be no elephants at our Elephant Wash #ChangeTheWorld
On May 19, 2012, we’re having an Elephant Wash. There won’t be any elephants (I asked the people at the zoo, and they said ‘”no”). Instead, the elephant wash will be full of kids and youth reaching...
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Bullets on the Tennis Court, or Mission trip to East St. Louis, part 1
There was a bullet on the tennis court. Not a spent shell. A fired bullet. Among the mess of leaves, sticks, and broken glass, one of our youth reached down and picked it up, looked at it for awhile...
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Who gave you this authority?
I walked by the chapel on my way to lunch. ”Come in,” my heart whispered. It was still racing a little. I didn’t want to stop. The adrenaline was still flowing after meeting at three different...
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I just added this to my bucket list (and I don’t even have a bucket list)
Cabinet, the board game. My friend and United Methodist colleague Gavin Lance Presley introduced me to this game, and my life will be incomplete until I play it. It was created by Bishop Dan Solomon,...
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Prayer for Illumination
I’ve long said that the motto of the United Methodist Church is best read as a call to action. It is not a descriptor so much as a call to action. I take the word “open” to be a verb. It is a call...
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There will be people there waiting for you.
I don’t think this was the exact motor we made, but they looked like these. It was a hot factory in Elgin. We were building electric motors that would be used in hospital beds. Every morning at 7 am...
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Find your voice for mothers
Click on the logo to apply for a Healthy Families Healthy Planet training seminar in Peoria, Ill. on Sept 6. There are two little girls that I pick up out of bed almost every morning. One of them is...
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An advent letter to my congregation
Dear Church, This is our first Christmas together, and I cannot tell you how excited I am for Christmas Eve. Every year, there are two moments I most look forward to at Christmas. One is my daughters...
View ArticleInclusivity Devotional 4 (Luke 21:5-19)
This devotion was published first in the IGRC for Unity weekly email. As the Communications Director for IGRC for Unity, I compose a weekly email with news, resources, and reflections. IGRC for Unity...
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