Apportionmentation Without Represenation: Standing Rules Proposal at TNUMC 2013
Posted by Brad S in Uncategorized on May 19, 2013
I just returned home from the Pulaski District Pre-Conference Briefing in preparation for the Tennessee Annual Conference. Usually, these meetings are pretty routine and, if I may say, rather boring affairs. However, there was a topic of discussion at today’s briefing that caught everyone’s attention. This topic was a proposal by the Standing Rules Committee […]
Yes, We Need Schism in the UMC (#DreamUMC Syncblog)
Posted by Brad S in Uncategorized on May 13, 2013
This post is in collaboration with the Dream UMC syncblog discussing the question: “Is Schism the best future for the UMC? Why / Why not?” Join us for a Tweetchat beginning tonight at 9pm Eastern #dreamumc. I believe that schism is not only our best choice for the future, it is our only choice for […]
Closed Bishop Meetings Fosters Mistrust
Posted by Brad S in Episcopacy, General Conference, United Methodist Church on April 24, 2013
This week we found out that when the active bishops in the United Methodist Church meet in San Diego in May no press or visitors will be allowed in those meetings. This is the second closed meeting of the bishops in the year following General and Jurisdictional conferences and the election of new bishops. The […]
I See Love: Good Friday Homily 2013
Posted by Brad S in Christianity, Church, God, Religion, Uncategorized, United Methodist Church on March 29, 2013
Some see a Jew dying at the hand of the powerful Roman Empire. Some see a prisoner alone, denied, and abandoned by his friends. Some see a troublemaker getting his just desserts. Some see a peacemaker whose words of love were rejected by the World. Some see a dreamer wasting his life on what could […]
Show Me Something: Holy Thursday Homily
Posted by Brad S in Uncategorized on March 28, 2013
John 13:1-17, 31b-35 I grew up in a church that did not celebrate Lent or Holy Week as part of the Christian calendar and so I did not even hear the term until I started attending a United Methodist church and even then I wondered what “Monday Thursday” was, maybe someone got their datebooks confused. […]
History Channel’s The Bible and Skipping the Hard Parts
Last night, Sunday March 3, the History Channel premiered its latest histo-drama The Bible. This mini-series was co-produced by husband and wife team Mark Burnnett (producer of reality TV hits Survivor, Shark Tank, and The Apprentice) and Roma Downey (star of Touched By an Angel) and covers the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation over a […]
Why I Don’t Care If You Are a Liberal Christian? (Or a Conservative Christian for that matter)
Posted by Brad S in Christianity, General Conference, Politics, Religion, Tennessee Conference, United Methodist Church on February 19, 2013
A few weeks ago blogger and professor Roger Olson wrote about why he is not a “liberal Christian” and he stated that while he was not a “Fundamentalist” he was definitely not a progressive Christian either giving several reasons. There have been several reactions to his post including one from Tony Jones. This morning United […]
Common English Bible Blog Tour
