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Dear Big Middle*, Sorry it’s been several weeks since my last installment of “Dear Big Middle” blogs. We’ve had a lot going on around here. These “Dear Big Middle” blogs are designed to speak to the large number of “moderate” United Methodists on specific same sex marriage issues. And the reason I have been delayed […]
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Beauty is there offering itself every day asking nothing not even that you notice the way the light shines through dry grass at sundown or the way shadows lay themselves across some arrangement of sandstone boulders or how the crisp air moves in and out as you climb an upward trail blue mountains to the […]
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I wasn’t a close friend of TR Richie‘s. But we ran in the some of the same circles. And we shared some powerful times with our Coho/Calvin’s friends, especially through Michael and Kendra. I’ve been following TR’s final journey with some interest, as cancer has been taking its toll. Some friends may have seen the […]
Read MoreElaine Heath: ” A New Set of Questions about Sex and Sin” Worth passing on. I think she nails it here: “It is past time to ask new, better questions about sexual virtue and sexual vice. The springboard for the new questions is not genitalia but imago Dei, the inherent sanctity and dignity of human […]
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“If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points toward a truer north…” –Umair Haque “Follow Your Heartbreak.” It’s a new way of discerning what your purpose and calling in life truly is. The ideas were first written down by Umair Haque in a blog he wrote (of all places) […]
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Even though I’ve made it crystal clear that I do not make New Year’s Resolutions, I’ve reposted these several years on this day just because they’re so awesome. This list is from 1942 and the great Woody Guthrie. Click the pic to enlarge. As I’ve said before, I don’t “do” New Year’s Resolutions. I have […]
Read MoreA video of Bishop John Schol, Resident Bishop of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference. I thank him for his willingness to put this message out there. I know there will be Reconciling friends who are deeply cynical about the UMC’s ability to actually do the things he calls for here. But I appreciate that […]
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My dear friend Frank Rahm posted this video on Facebook this morning, and it got me thinking… We preacher-types visit hospitals quite a lot. If we’re paying attention, they can be excellent places to practice paying close attention. All around you, every day at the hospital, the little dramas in this video are unfolding. When […]
Read MoreOn November 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of John F Kennedy in Dallas, Rev. William Holmes, pastor of Northaven Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas preached this sermon. The sermon, and the reaction to it, became its own story, when Walter Cronkite ran an extended excerpt on the CBS Evening News, and Rev. Holmes […]
Read MoreToday is The Judge’s birthday. I won’t spill the beans on how old she is. That would be foolish on my part. Btw, if you’ve considered getting a gift, I would suggest that campaign contributions make a very nice one. 🙂 But as you’d imagine, I’m deeply grateful she was born. I’ve been meditating on […]
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