Musings on Faith, Culture and ADHD
We can see different things according to our viewpoint. I've been thinking about the concept of parallax. That's when it looks like a difference or displacement of an object when you view it from two different lines of sight. If you go to the Wikipedia page on a parallax, you see a diagram looking at... Continue Reading →
Well, the Special General Conference for the United Methodist Church is done. For those of us who are LGBTQ and allies, the result was shocking and hurtful.
I gave up church because I can no longer make the trade-offs between worship, theology, mission, and community that I have made for years. My congregational options usually seem to consist of historically Black church settings with prophetic preaching and action on issues of racial and social justice, but that reject women’s call to pastoral... Continue Reading →
What does it mean to be church in the era of President Trump? What does this mean for Mainline/Progressive Christians? In the days following the Inauguration, I was less worried about the new President. It doesn't mean I wasn't concerned: but he was chosen in an election and should be allowed govern. It might be... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: I have to start this blog post off by saying that the following criticism is not directed at any one person. It is NOT a personal attack on anybody. This is a critique of a larger system that people might be a part of, but again my beef is with the system and not... Continue Reading →
There have been a myriad of stories about how Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is winning over evangelicals. And there have been a lot of pixels given over to talking about how hypocritical evangelicals are. In the 90s, they wanted to burn Bill Clinton at the stake for adultery, but now they ignore Trump's many... Continue Reading →
This morning at church, things are what they are on most Sundays. We had about 15 people who sang, prayed and listened to the sermon. We talked about making sandwiches for the homeless in a few weeks time. But something unusual did happen today. For whatever reason, an elderly woman was dropped off at 9AM... Continue Reading →
Every so often, I've heard an argument that goes like this: "the press only talks about the Christians vs. the gays as if all Christians are against being gay. Don't they know that there are Christians who support gays?" The frustration comes from being ignored by the wider culture, especially the media. When we think... Continue Reading →
Every so often, I've heard someone at some point say something to the following: "We are not suppose to keep the (state the name) church going. We are suppose to be the church." Maybe the say they aren't suppose to save the church,or that said denomination's survival doesn't matter. For a long time, such statements... Continue Reading →
A controversy is brewing in the United Church of Canada over a minister who doesn't believe in a God or in the Bible. There are those in the denomination that believe she should be defrocked since she is an atheist. She is demanding to stay ordained, believing that she is preaching a truer form of... Continue Reading →
The Clockwork Pastor 