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The Rev. Jeremy Smith, Hacking Christianity
Newest Articles
State of the UMC in 1000 words, part 1
A primer on the history that led us to this situation in The UMC and a lament of what could have been.
What happens when we apply a Computer Coding debate to Christian Doctrine?
How a conflict in computer coding philosophies informs Christian beliefs on doctrine and practice.
Would Election by Lottery help or hurt #UMC General Conference?
Is there a better way to transform General Conference from the bottom-up?
Should sermons give answers or offer better questions?
Should sermons give authoritative answers or should they guide people into better questions? An exploration.
Church and Christian Reflections
Varied reflections on Christian topics, including Church in a time of COVID-19.
Making sense of theology with charts
Our most popular content is these charts that are reproducable for individual or group study.
Geek Gospel
Every genre can be a Sacred Text. Discover more about yours, or find a new one today!
Recent Articles
What happens when we apply a Computer Coding debate to Christian Doctrine?
How a conflict in computer coding philosophies informs Christian beliefs on doctrine and practice.
Sci-fi Time Loops show us that Sacred Stories break cycles
A time loop allows us to learn what really helps us out of cycles of harm and difficulty.
The best $500 camera setup that I actually use for online worship in COVID-19
The best $500 you can spend to have brighter, better sounding, and better positioned videos for online worship.
Tetris and Advent [Geek Gospel]
Could a 30 year old video game inform an ancient practice of Advent…for today?
A Wrinkle in Time’s Watered Down Theology
A guest post by a reader who found a disconnect between the spirituality of the book and the one depicted in the movie
What Are You Prepared To Do For Justice?
A question of commitment keeps me coming back to two movies and their evaluations of the fuzzy line of justice.
Featured Articles
United Methodism (and whatever comes next)
Recent Articles
Clergy Under Complaint: A Broken Process [Guest Article]
A winding road eventually gets there, but the clergy complaint process has fallen off the path multiple times in Virginia.
UMC Bishops choose to Stop, Collaborate, and Listen. Will we?
This may be a shocker but the bishops actually…listened!
Yes, Virginia, Drag Queens can be called to ministry too
Traditionalists clutch at their pearls whenever anyone different from them pursues a call to ministry.
A Better Way: Problematic Choices for the 2021 Special Conferences in The #UMC
Ecclesial Federalism in conflict in United Methodism as states rights conflict with global overreach.
