What if we ran out of stories? It doesn’t seem like we’re any danger of that. Netflix announced earlier this year that it was going to spend $8 billion on original content in 2018. Other media outlets are increasing their output. Even amateurs with a smartphone are producing YouTube series. Our appetite for stories doesn’t […]
If you had told me last week that I would get to high-five a bishop in the middle of his sermon at Annual Conference, I would have told you that you were dreaming. Bishops don’t do that. But bishops do do that and there I was last Saturday as the visiting bishop from Mississippi, James […]
What the church really needs for revival is to be socially relevant. No, it all starts with a great music program. Wait, we need a mission statement that’s clever and quippy. How about a Bible study that offers applicable principles for everyday living? Don’t forget the giveaway mugs! There’s no end to prescriptions for turning […]
This week the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be taking the lead in a denomination-wide week of prayer for A Way Forward. I’ll be sharing some of the conference prayer resources for the week, some of which came out of my Thousand Prayers for Unity Project. As the commission helps us deal […]
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