Many of my former Protestant friends wonder why I bother staying in the Protestant fold (you know who you are!). This is one of the reasons. The leadership in our region is taking a long look at the state of our churches, and actually proactively moving to address the problems. This is good work and,…
Category: Pastoring
A Note from a Friend…
I just found this piece on what one church is doing to help promote Biblical literacy over on ABCNJ.net. Dee Dee is a person I consider a friend, and she’s doing a good thing with this. Two points in commentary, but do yourself a favor and read them after you read the article, OK?
The Ordinary Radicals
The Ordinary Radicals is a film by an acquaintance of mine from Eastern. Several of my friends are featured promentently in the film – which I find just….incredibly weird in a good way all around. Even though I’m not part of the new monastic movement, I appreciate what my friends are doing, not reinventing the…
The True Religion
Football season kicks off this week. I can’t say I’m not excited, because I am. Even though the ‘Birds are probably going no where I grew up in Philly – football is part of what being part of this region is all about. After worship this Sunday I will probably be sitting with some of…
Over Six Summers
I’m about to start my sixth “school year” here in Palmyra. Believe it or not, but this is the longest I’ve lived in any one place since I started dorming at LMH when I was 17 years old. It is certainly the only home that my son remembers, and the only one that my daughter…
Things that make me go, “eh.”
I’ve been seeing a lot written about why Evangelicals are leaving “the Institutional Church” in droves. I find the stories interesting, given that most the people sharing their stories tend to be my contemporaries, and yet their tales also fale to capture my heart. I really don’t need convincing that a good number of the…
