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Reading while White (4)

In an earlier period of my life, I slogged through a master’s degree while working for a business in Midtown Atlanta. One day, I found

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Recalculating

I don’t always have the best sense of direction. That’s one reason why I was particularly thankful when GPS systems became available for our cars.

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April 11, 2022 No Comments

Why I Still Love the Church: Another Letter to My Students

  Dearest students: Your final reflections in History of Christianity 1 were rather discouraging to me. I loved hearing about all the things you learned

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April 4, 2022 No Comments

Inhabiting Scripture, Searching the Scriptures

O Lord, do not let my heart not be proud, May my eyes not be haughty and look on others condescendingly The timbre of his

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March 14, 2022 No Comments

Even Now? A Christian Pacifist Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

You could almost hear the sighs of relief between the lines of handwringing op-eds in the buildup to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For all the

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March 7, 2022 No Comments

The Wesleyan Tradition’s Long Road to Reclaiming the Ancient Church’s Practice of Ordaining Women

Although John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, respected and employed women in ministry, neither he nor his early successors in the eighteenth century advocated for

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February 28, 2022 No Comments

Reading while White (3)

“Methodology is the residue of innovation.” My PhD advisor rattled that off one day as we were discussing one of my dissertation chapters, and I

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February 21, 2022 No Comments

Share Your Faith…Again

Have you ever watched a caterpillar transform into a butterfly? It is a miraculous sight. The plain, ordinary caterpillar becomes something spectacular. A transformation, a

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February 14, 2022 No Comments

On Perfectionism and Pride: A Letter to My Students

  Dearest students: We need to talk. I am concerned about you. Many of you are attempting to be perfect in ways that John Wesley—let

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February 7, 2022 No Comments

A “Seamless Garment” Approach to Theological Ethics

In the early 1980s, Roman Catholic prelate Joseph Cardinal Bernardin urged a holistic approach to the ethics of life. Adopting an allegorical reading of John

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