Perhaps, there may even come a day when some who favored or even voted for the Traditionalist Plan will look back on this past week and ask the question “What have we done?” They will be welcome to join the new way forward towards Beloved Community, and they won’t even have to sign anything. — Mark Davies
via The Way Backward
Just learned about an hour ago that a long time online friend, whom I never met face to face, passed away. Norman Suggs was such a kind, compassionate, and life-loving, good-humored online presence to everyone. I had been exchanging comments under my posts and his for about 10-12 years. One of the saddest bits of news I’ve ever had come Continue Reading
From a Facebook friend: “this is what happens when things that are not eternal truths but culturally driven are taken as eternal truths even though they aren’t.”
Reading Wallace-Wells new book “The Uninhabitable Earth”, and a mash up of that with “Uninhabitable UMC”. It’s not quite a perfect analogy, but there are obvious parallels that are certainly analogous.
So I am wondering about what may be ahead for the UMC** in terms of the need to focus more of our energies on the Ecological Crisis as a theological crisis and call to responsibility; a close kin and perhaps central tenet of what God is doing amongst us as our moral failings as humanity now threaten, in a most Continue Reading
I posted thoughts yesterday about how this UMC schism is like a replay of the Southern Baptist fundamentalist takeover I also experienced, which was about to explode into reality when I was in Seminary at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. (M. Div. 1978-81). My “Church History II” professor, Bill J. Leonard, soon (or in about 10 years) to Continue Reading
So much to say since the realizations that began to dawn, or “nightmares-come-true”, or “UMC-apocalypse” that seemed to be birthed yesterday. So much to say, but it seems I am listening right now, for today I am encouraged by the morning reflections of people in grief-yet-hope. Still sharing them.
““I feel absolutely no moral or theological obligation to the “power take all” mentality and strategies of the radicalizing right in our churches. They got their way, now let them enforce it. They are losing this battle in the wider culture and doing great damage to the witness of the church. We struggle against the principalities and powers in the Continue Reading
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