“You can’t evangelize and antagonize at the same time!”
Pastor Dewey E Smith recently preached about homosexuality at the House of Hope, Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church in Decatur GA.
Pastor Dewey E Smith recently preached about homosexuality at the House of Hope, Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church in Decatur GA.
Really, our theology is a bit like IKEA furniture, and nowhere is the IKEA-ness expressed best in the American church through General Convention. If you’ve ever put together anything from IKEA, you know that the instructions are short on words, big on pictures, and the expectation is that with these instructions, any of us can “go thou and do likewise.”
“What I’ve come to understand after attending General Convention three times is that the Episcopal Church is about as diverse a body of faithful people as a denomination can be and still consider itself to be one church.”
Betsy, Greg, Kyle, and Mike explore comic book mythology and discuss how it informs our use of biblical narratives in our churches.
The feeding of the multitude and Jesus’s path across the stormy seas are told as one story for a reason. On one side of the sea the multitude is fed and on the other side of the sea Jesus is revealed as one who transcends limits. In between is the sea filled with our confusion, our doubt, our insistence that we not be shaken too much in our understanding