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Washing feet?

Reading Vanier’s book on John. He talks about the profound gesture of washing each other’s feet as part of the community. I get the idea of humility, but it’s lost its practical significance. Jesus...

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Loving Neighbors in an Era of Internment

On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed  an order which authorized the internment of Americans who had Japanese ancestry.  Families were rounded up, taken away from their homes, put in...

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Of course I am still an Evangelical

Over the last few months, there’s been a flurry of folks stating they are no longer Evangelicals, leaving behind that label for supposedly better appellative pastures. Almost all that I’ve heard doing...

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Consumerism: I learned it by watching you

If you were a child of the 80s, or had a child in the 80s, you’ll remember the public service announcements they showed on daytime television, especially Saturday morning. I occasionally use the phrase...

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B.T. Roberts (founder of the Free Methodists) on women in ministry

CHAPTER XVII:   CONCLUSION (of his book Ordaining Women written in 1891 ) “What are we, what our race, How good for nothing and base, Without fair woman to aid us? What could we do, where should we go,...

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Testimony

When I was 6 or 7, I wrote a personal testimony of faith: As of this past April, now age 43, I am a licensed pastor in The Wesleyan Church. The process wasn’t that difficult. I started it late last...

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The Way to Pray

Last week, I preached on prayer. Here’s what I had to say:   Here are the notes for the sermon

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on ordination

As part of my ordination examination, I was asked to provide a further response about ordination. Indeed, while I was affirmed in almost every way, the lingering question at the table was whether my...

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Society and the Church after September 11

In late Summer 2001, I was 26 years old, and I was dealing with some wonderful ups and significant downs. I had traveled to Ireland in July, working at a center that sought religious reconciliation...

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Hope for the nations starts in local (online?) communities

One of my projects these days is helping in the development of online training for Bible Translators all over the world. I sent an email to a group of beta testers this morning, and one reply had this...

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