It’s been 5 days since I arrived in Nashville, and so far, so good. Leaving Austin was harder than I thought it was going to be, but I’m confident I’ll adjust to everything in a few weeks. Working at the United Methodist Publishing House is going to be a blast– the people there h...

A few years ago, someone in our church’s youth ministry decided to make a list of rules for the church gym. If I recall correctly, the rules were written in red letters on white poster board. Someone hung the rules at the main entrance, and with gems like “no profanity”, “no ...

Watching cable news these days makes me feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. First, President Obama spoke at a White House Ramadan dinner and expressed his support for the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan: President Obama But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President...

I’m excited to announce that within the next couple of weeks, I’ll be joining the United Methodist Publishing House as an editor, writer and content manager. I’m going to be part of a team working on an exciting new project called MinistryMatters.com– a website aimed at every...

I haven’t listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s radio show in over 10 years. One, I rarely listen to talk radio anyway. Two, I can’t handle much on-air “therapy” . Whining people and chastising hosts… it just gets old to me. Mind you, some of the people who call in...

Last year, when I was reporting on the United Methodist Church’s “Rethink Church” campaign, I noted the similarity between the look of the UMC’s ad campaign and KFC’s “Unthink Chicken” campaign. The post was written  in fun– I figured the similarity w...

No, I don’t mean that Erasmus. The one I’m referring to was an 18th Century Eastern Orthodox bishop, from the Diocese of Arcadia on the Greek island of Crete. What does he have to do with Methodists, you ask? Well, not much or a lot, depending on what you think of the Catholic view of ap...

USA Today would have you believe that teenagers are staying away from church and youth group because they’re too busy. Not so. I don’t buy the excuse that youth are busier now than they were ten years ago. Sure, there are technological distractions that didn’t exist then, but does ...

Roland Martin is one of my favorite analysts on CNN. He believes what he says, and he says it with passion, whatever the issue. In a cable news environment full of stale talking points, Roland keeps things interesting. His Twitter feed is no different. Sunday he was Tweeting about his visit to the B...

Nothing John Wesley preached created more controversy in his day than the doctrine of Christian perfection, also known as entire sanctification. And it would probably cause a big stir now too, except no one preaches it. Okay, maybe some people do somewhere, but I don’t hear it in the United Me...