A 1966 sermon gives the answer to why the church didn’t recite the Creed every Sunday, and its findings are applicable to today.
Why Creeds are not Useful in Worship
Offering Just Wages in the Church
Should a Senior Pastor’s salary be more than 4x the salary of the lowest-paid employee? 5x? 10x? The question may surprise you.
Why I’m jealous of Steve Furtick’s Baptism Miracles
I’m jealous of a church that allows the ends to justify the means…mostly because the #UMC isn’t sure what the ends are at all.
Variety of Membership Vows in the #UMC
When we choose to be knit together, what do we say? Do all churches in a denomination need to say the same thing precisely?
Hacking Christianity 4.0
Hello World Today marks one of the most significant site upgrades and updates to HackingChristianity.net since it began in March 2008. While most of the updates have been cosmetic (or replacing catastrophic loss – see version 3.0 below), this is the first one that is holistic: all pages, posts, categories, images, and the entire site […]
Code your Ministry until you can Program it
Pastors start out as Coders and then become Programmers…but only at first.
Violating the Discipline to show violating the Discipline is wrong
It is refreshing to see even the Good News Movement supports biblical obedience when the polity of the church gets in the way.
Guest Post: Trials and Misconduct within the United Methodist Church
Why does the UMC fast-track charges against LGBT advocates while placing roadblocks in front of sexual assault charges?
Can we get a Moratorium on #UMC Trials too?
The whole system of accountability breaks down when we have unjust laws in our polity. Until those laws are removed by an act of General Conference, then a moratorium is needed on trials of this particular nature until we can truly come to a just resolution.
Flappy Bird Removal was about Redemption not Success
Mobile game ‘Flappy Bird’ was removed not because of its success but because we can’t handle it.
