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Archives for September 2014

What will a Minority White God look like?

September 29, 2014 by UMJeremy 5 Comments

As white culture becomes less of a majority culture, what changes to theology will take place, and how reasonable will people’s acceptance of those changes be? And how will we get to the other side in one piece?

Filed Under: Theology

Why Straight White Men want to close General Conference #UMC

September 26, 2014 by UMJeremy 81 Comments

Current calls to “close” the highest doctrine-making body of the United Methodist Church are being made by persons of privilege who are ignoring what it means to put the abused in the same room with the abuser…alone.

Filed Under: UMC

Why do churches even DO rural ministry?

September 23, 2014 by UMJeremy 9 Comments

A guy made a Sim City city with over 100 million people in it. If the games we play are about bigger and better cities, then why do we think of or care for churches in rural contexts?

Filed Under: church growth, Church Talk

Apple and Microsoft Have Failed Us

September 19, 2014 by UMJeremy 7 Comments

Both Apple and Microsoft have huge cash reserves that could be leveraged for social good. But is it their means or ends that we are concerned with, and how can we strike that balance in our own organizations?

Filed Under: Justice, Technology

Echoes of Jim Crow in the United Methodist Church

September 8, 2014 by UMJeremy 14 Comments

Progressive pastors who support full inclusion of LGBT persons in the United Methodist Church have a lot in common with racially-inclusive poll workers and restaurant owners in the 1900s.

Filed Under: Justice, UMC Tagged With: LGBT

Christian blog spam is getting wicked smarter

September 5, 2014 by UMJeremy 3 Comments

The past 48 hours, a new form of spam comments has come up–and it’s pretty impressive! Check out an example, what they are doing, and how to better handle it.

Filed Under: Internets

Is the Simplest form of Church just a Dinner Table?

September 4, 2014 by UMJeremy 25 Comments

A new church start in New England gathers around a dinner table instead of rows of pews. I wonder if this is a portent of the future of church.

Filed Under: Church Talk

3 Ways the #UMC gets Progressive Methodism shockingly wrong

September 1, 2014 by UMJeremy 28 Comments

Three tired arguments about Progressive Methodists are brought to the light along with an encouragement to Progressives of how to change the online conversation game.

Filed Under: church growth, discipleship, UMC

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