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Archives for March 2016

Our Second Abraham Failed: The Story of Judas

March 23, 2016 by UMJeremy 10 Comments

If it seems unlikely that Judas betrayed Jesus because of money or evil possession, could he have been turned by a simple story?

Filed Under: Bible Study Tagged With: Lent

From a Majority to a Hegemony in the #UMC

March 22, 2016 by UMJeremy 7 Comments

When the majority tries to become a hegemony by changing the way how The UMC allocates votes at General Conference, we must ask if a Church with fewer voices at the table is what we imagined.

Filed Under: UMC

Four Half-Truths — and One Truth — About General Conference

March 18, 2016 by UMJeremy 19 Comments

Clearing up four misconceptions about General Conference, and affirming one that is actually right.

Filed Under: UMC Tagged With: GC2016

For Holiness, Hit Refresh Daily

March 17, 2016 by UMJeremy 1 Comment

Holiness is not an accumulation of good things; holiness is a daily choice to see the world with fresh eyes and intention.

Filed Under: discipleship

Faceless Accountability is no way to save the #UMC Covenant

March 14, 2016 by UMJeremy 13 Comments

Faceless accountability is not the way to “save” the UMC clergy covenant–indeed, it may do more damage to it than anything involving gay people.

Filed Under: UMC

Reversing Wesley: Wesleyanism in an Upside-Down World?

March 11, 2016 by UMJeremy 11 Comments

Is the process of religion reversed today, and if so, does Wesley have it not quite right for us?

Filed Under: Theology, UMC

God’s Plan and Possibilities in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [Geek Gospel]

March 10, 2016 by UMJeremy 2 Comments

Marvels’ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has another religiously-themed episode, and here’s some commentary on it.

Filed Under: Geek Gospel

The Old UMC is Dying. The New UMC cannot yet be born.

March 8, 2016 by UMJeremy 54 Comments

In the interregnum, authority steps in front of its legitimacy and becomes authoritarianism to stop the progress into the new way of being.

Filed Under: UMC

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