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Category: Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

The Church in John 20

The penultimate chapter of John’s Gospel is busy, with accounts of Jesus’s resurrection and his first appearances to his disciples on Easter and on the

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May 15, 2023 No Comments

Preaching as Storytelling?

For some preachers and congregations, storytelling is the essence of preaching. A good preacher is a good storyteller, first and foremost, and if in fact

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April 20, 2023 No Comments

Women, Leadership, and the Kingdom of God

What happens when women lead? What really happens — relationally, psychologically, personally, spiritually? What barriers do women leaders face, and what strategies will equip them

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February 15, 2023 No Comments

In the Margins of the Church

In a strange confluence of events, I found myself writing a master’s thesis on the apostle Paul’s usage of the term “body” while having my

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December 19, 2022 No Comments

In a Complicated World, the Spirit Is with Us

  At one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the early apostolic church—an inflection point recorded in the book of Acts—we read:

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December 7, 2022 No Comments

What Use Is a Pastor?

Just recently, in my eighth year as a pastor, serving my fourth congregation, for the first time, I found myself in one of the most

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November 14, 2022 No Comments

Song of Songs and Our Theological Heritage

One of my most memorable teaching triumphs occurred in a course for United Methodist lay pastors (“local pastors”) about four years ago. The course was

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September 5, 2022 No Comments

On the Altering of Hymns

I recently attended a Sunday morning worship service at a non-United Methodist congregation. To my surprise, the opening hymn was Charles Wesley’s “O For a

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July 18, 2022 No Comments

Faithful Church Life: Moving toward the Center

Drilling for oil in deep-sea conditions introduces some challenges, and not only because it’s a long way down from the ocean surface to the ocean

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March 21, 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
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