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The age of the wireless changed everything.  As King George V said, ‘previously we only had to march around and look good in costume, now we are expected to come into every hearth and home and speak to people.’  With the rise of radio,  royal families were compelled to take on the roles of national…

The way the God of the Bible more often than not gets things done is with words, mere words.  In Gen. 1 God speaks, and creation springs into life.  Jesus speaks “your daughter will live” and it is so.   God promises something, and it comes true.  A  prophet prophesies something, and it happens. Words.  It…

“The modern world has many ways of turning us in on ourselves, eventually to worship the dear little god within. Christianity, the religion evoked by Jesus, is a decidedly fierce means of wrenching us outward. We are not left alone peacefully to console ourselves with our sweet bromides, or to snuggle with allegedly beautiful Mother…

Yes, it is true.  Writers have favorite writers.  And one of my favorite writers, preachers, and Christian persons is Bishop Will Willimon.  He has a wonderful new book. It’s short, to the point, pointed, equal parts eloquent and deliberately irritating.  And he is absolutely right— so many people who think they know Jesus, don’t know…

MOTHER LOAD   From the very beginning The burden was clear Sometimes bearable Sometimes severe Ate from the apple Shared it with him Disobeyed the order Indulged the whim. What was the outcome? The fruit of the act? She ‘knew’ good and evil? She experienced it in fact? Did the earth creature join her? Did…

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The devotional use and reading of the Bible has gone on for as long as there has been a Bible, but when John Wesley refers to ‘searching the Scriptures’ he in fact is not referring to a particular kind of use of the Bible or a particular sort of way of reading it for spiritual…

It was, without question, a shock to my system.  My wife and I moved to England for my doctoral work in 1977.   I came as a person on the way to ‘full ordination’ in the United Methodist Church in America.   Now the two churches I had been part of since birth, Wesley Memorial UMC in…

http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=8980131
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