The Archive
Year: 2013
Churches turn to part time clergy
A rising trend of non-stipendary clergy who are called from within their congregation and educated in non-traditional seminaries is noted by
Did you miss the memo?
AM Psalm 146, 147; PM Psalm 111, 112, 113 Acts 14:8-18; Kirkepiscatoid
Throwing hardballs at God
But what would happen if we recognize our raging laments and hurl them at God, the only one capable of catching them and holding them in love and safety?
Soul School
Social media is offering a wide variety of tools to churches for formation and connection.
International Day of the Girl Child
In many dialects around the world, there is no word for “girl”; in those dialects the word “child” is a masculine word. You see, in many parts of the world, girls have no value until they are a commodity, until they are women.
The Higgs Boson, the God particle, the Christ
by Sam Candler The naming of the Nobel Prize for physics is always cool. But it is especially cool this year, because the winners were
Is Communion on-line really Communion?
As online worship becomes more common in some churches, leaders within the United Methodist Church are debating whether the denomination should condone online Communion.
Staff prepares talking points on UTO controversy for House of Bishops
At the request of several bishops, the Church Center staff recently provided the House of Bishops with “talking points” regarding the recent controversy involving the