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Wisconsin: Clergy Covenant is a Practice not a Punishment
A Wisconsin clergy group commissioned with reviewing and recommending what a "clergy covenant" means and should mean has released their recommendations...and it concludes that LGBT exclusion is itself a violation of the practice of the clergy covenant and ought not be upheld. Amy DeLong was part … [More]
Pope Francis embraces Anonymous Christians
Everyone is just *shocked* that Pope Francis has said that non-Christians and Christians may end up in the same place in the grand scheme of things. I heard the news and yawned and said "Oh, Karl Rahner is in the news..." Karl Rahner was one of the greatest minds in the Roman Catholic Church. … [More]
Tornado Relief: Different stages need different donations
I saw floating around FB a link to a NewsOK article (autoplay video warning) that talked about how not 100% of donations to the American Red Cross are guaranteed to go to Oklahoma. And this is a problem. While there is a solution in that donations to UMCOR are 100% given to the victims, the bigger … [More]
What if Oklahoma cancelled #UMC Annual Conference for Tornado Relief?
This coming Monday, Oklahoma has their Annual Conference, a gathering of about 1,000 United Methodist clergy and laity in Oklahoma City. Only once a year is a concentrated group of United Methodists gathered together on this scale in Oklahoma City. While many come from areas affected by tornado … [More]
Geek Gospel
I am a Creator. I’ll Improvise.
In the 2010 movie Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 80s movie Tron, there is a digital world where computer programs are anthropomorphized and walk around like humans. The programmer’s son comes back to the digital world to save his father who has been essentially trapped by the evil program CLU. They are called “Users.” Users are [...]
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