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QUESTION: Communion and Hygiene - Two Simple Practices to Keep People Well...
“But what if we hold a Courageous Conversations event and we grow more divided?” This is a common fear I hear from church members about their hesitation to hold a Courageous Conver...
Scott and Steve explore the downsides of printed and video based curricula. They discuss other resources small groups can use for intentional disciple making, such as A Disciple’s ...
QUESTION: What are rubrics and how do we use them?...
QUESTION: Is it true the only part of the Great Thanksgiving the authorized persider must say is the Epiclesis?...
Scott and Steve build on General Secretary Junius Dotson’s mantra “stop fixing churches” by discussing how to build a culture of growing Wesleyan leaders through small groups....
“I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee, e...
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We live in a culture that tells us to be afraid, in many ways and by many means. We are told to fear immigrants, refugees, and Muslims. We are told to be on guard, to get a gun, an...
“A rule of life is a pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth in holiness. It fosters gifts of the Spirit in personal life and human commun...
The CCLI Top 100 Vetting Project has its roots in three other projects, one that was already underway, a second that had recently begun, and the third that seemed likely to be fort...
Scott and Steve continue their interview with Kevin Watson about his book "The Class Meeting". Scott and Steve also interview Amy Sigmon from Belle Meade United Methodist Church ab...
Mary was just a girl, about fourteen years old, when she was betrothed to Joseph. She lived in Nazareth, a dusty backwater of a town in Galilee. It was a place known for producing ...
By Pierre Omadjela Tangomo In October, I traveled to Kamina in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to lead a three-day training on how to use the e-readers with the students and s...
I am often asked the question, “How do you decide which books to put on the e-readers?” It’s a good question, and one that has more than one answer. We began the E-Reader Project ...
QUESTION: Why doesn't the Book of Worship include readings for the lighting of the central candle in the Advent wreath?...
THEN The United Methodist Book of Worship (1992), The Book of Common Worship (Presbyterian Church USA, 1993), The Book of Common Prayer (The Episcopal Church, 1979), and more recen...
This is a letter I wrote to a colleague about prayer and pastoral life some years back. I've redacted references to my colleague and my colleague's situation. I find this still ref...
This is not the kind of silence one creates by "emptying oneself" (as if that were even actually possible). This is the silence into which we find ourselves knocked when terrible n...
During my twelve year plus tenure at Discipleship Ministries, I've undergone two periods of serious illness involving my heart. In 2009, I went through four months of what was even...
What Is Ritual Realism? Ritual realism is a phrase that names a point of convergence in the circles where I travel in the United Methodist Church and ecumenically. Put simply, it m...
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