“THE TERRIBLE SIMPLIFIERS” …6/9/08

by Steve

I’m not sure that many of you happened to see Bill Moyers’ interview of pastor Jeremiah Wright on Moyers’ PBS television show, so I want to share a little about it for your reflection.  Moyers, who ranks as my most admired journalist of any kind, talked about the separation between Barack Obama and his pastor.  “We [...]

THE SHACK…6/4/08

by Steve

I read a review this week of William Young’s new novel, The Shack.  The review caught my attention because Albert Mohler, president of the unltra-conservative Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, called it “heresy.”  I’m not quite sure how any NOVEL can be called heretical, but anyway, that’s how my attention was caught. The [...]

WHAT? 6/3/08

by Steve

If yesterday’s entry could not generate any response, I might as well close up shop!

FROM ANOTHER PREACHER…6/2/08

by Steve

Here’s a first for you…Fellow minister Jason Byassee wrote the words beginning in the next paragraph on the blog of the Christian Century.  I just want you to read them and tell me what you think.  Thanks…and I’ll be at Annual Conference the rest of this week, and I will write on the blog as [...]

THE CHURCH’S BOOK…sermon preached 6/1/08

by Steve

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