I am currently in the process of shopping for a new church. Church has been an important part of my life since I was a kid. I know that there are people out there who will read this and who don’t care about/like church. I get that. But, it matters to me. Even before the … More Disconnected From Church
I mentioned in a previous post that the United Methodist Church is dealing with churches disaffiliating over the issue of gay marriage and gay clergy. I am no theologian, but I have some thoughts on the issue, and how I find it interesting how people focus on rigidly following some verses, but not others. The … More Some Thoughts on Church and Beliefs
The United Methodist Church is in the process of splitting. The more conservative churches are leaving to form the Global Methodist Church. The assumption is that the exodus of the conservative churches will pave the way for the United Methodist Church to reverse its ban on gay ordination and marriage. My church put together a … More An Interesting Day at Church
Yesterday being Easter meant that a large number of people ventured out to church, some for the first time since the pandemic. Most of them will not venture out to church again until Christmas. I don’t get the point of that, but if that’s what makes you happy I won’t argue with it. I also … More We Need Love More Than We Need Religion
Every day in the news and on Twitter see people talking about the Southern Baptist Convention and all of the bad stuff that has been allowed to happen within the denomination. I’ve seen stories of people from the church calling a woman who reported abuse a whore and an enemy of Christ. A large number … More Some Thoughts on Religion
I was just watching Vampires vs the Bronx on Netflix. It’s kind of Attack the Block with vampires. I enjoyed it and would recommend it. While watching, I was reminded of when I used to teach middle school Sunday school at my old church. I’m not sure I was that good at it. I think … More Two Times I Used Vampire Stories to Teach Sunday School
I was looking for another post and this one came up. I fixed an appalling number of typos in it. It reminds me of the irritation I have about people who have decided they know what a marriage should be and that everyone’s marriage should fit in that box. It is especially irritating when people … More Tater Takes on a Marriage Quote About Becoming One
Fox's Pastor Robert Jeffress: "The effort to impeach President Trump is really an effort to impeach our own deeply held faith values" pic.twitter.com/1X751y5HU5 — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 1, 2019 An added bonus second post today before I forget to talk about the above tweet. Robert Jeffress talks about impeaching Trump being the same as … More The New Evangelical Values
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But the topic of this post is something that really bothers me and I decided not to keep quiet. I am appalled that the same people who are all over the internet loudly proclaiming that they are being persecuted because people are saying Happy Holidays are the…
I am not a Bible scholar. I hesitated to write this post because of that. Perhaps someone will tell me I have it all wrong. Perhaps no one will read it. I’m doing it anyway. I used to teach middle school Sunday school. I would talk about Jonah with every group. I used to have … More Let’s Talk About Jonah
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