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California Mystery Worship Five: Church Reservations Needed
Chocolates for visitors and the necessary parking pass for free parking My first hint that this might be a radically different place to go to church was the fact that I had to make a reservation to...
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Let’s Talk About Sex #UMC
An article in the New York Times recently caught my eye. Titled, “Let’s Not Talk About Sex,” it is written by Paul A. Offit, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at...
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The Church’s Gay Obsession and Our Hypocrisies #UMC
I simply stole that headline, “The Church’s Gay Obsession” from this superb editorial in the October 5, 2014, edition of the New York Times. Frank Bruni speaks eloquently of the Catholic church’s...
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Reflections One Year Post Retirement: Out of the Christian Bubble
Note: this is the first of a three part post. Part Two: Into the Sapphire Bubble is here. Part Three, From the Personal to the Public, the UMC Disaster, is here. On December 29, 2013, I said “goodbye”...
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Part Two: Into the Sapphire Bubble
Note: this is the second of a three part post. Part One: Reflections on Retirement: Out of the Christian Bubble is here. Part Three, From the Personal to the Public, the UMC Disaster, is here. So this...
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Part Three: From the Personal to the Public, the UMC disaster
Note: this is the third of a three part post. Part One: Reflections One Year Post Retirement: Out of the Christian Bubble. is here. Part Two: Into the Sapphire Bubble is here. Let’s move momentarily...
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Why I Left Evangelicalism: “The Next Thing to Hate”
“After the first night of legal Gay marriage ceremonies in England and Wales, Christians are today desperately leafing through the Bible to identify another basic human right to rail against.” This...
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“After the first night of legal Gay marriage ceremonies in England and Wales, Christians are today desperately leafing through the Bible to identify another basic human right to rail against.” This...
View ArticleCalifornia Mystery Worship Five: Church Reservations Needed
My first hint that this might be a radically different place to go to church was the fact that I had to make a reservation to attend. And radically different it was–full of life, music, great...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Sex #UMC
An article in the New York Times recently caught my eye. Titled, “Let’s Not Talk About Sex,” it is written by Paul A. Offit, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at...
View ArticleThe Church's Gay Obsession and Our Hypocrisies #UMC
I simply stole that headline, “The Church’s Gay Obsession” from this superb editorial in the October 5, 2014, edition of the New York Times. Frank Bruni speaks eloquently of the Catholic church’s...
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