Here’s our promo for A Christmas Story Christmas. The series began last week with a look at what it means to have people telling you, “You’ll shoot your eye out!” This week we move to another key scene in the movie: the Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring. It will show us something about expectation and Read the full article…
In recent months, certain athletes, politicians, and clergy have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. So what do we do around here to make sure the we don’t get that kind of press? While no method is foolproof, there are a few boundaries we’ve drawn on staff that help: If you’re married, Read the full article…
That will be our staff today. Hopefully minus the track suits. It’s our annual Christmas outing / gift extravaganza for the people who work here. Julie and I give each staffer a gift card to a local mall, and we trek there together. After a time of self-shopping, we meet together for lunch. It’s all Read the full article…
Sometimes the eyes of an outsider can help you see things in an entirely new light. A couple of years ago, our District — the Charlotte District of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church to be precise — held a continuing education event in which the focus was recapturing John Wesley’s Read the full article…
. . . and that’s unusual. And not because I don’t like Wesley. I do. Very much. Thank God he believed in free will. But it’s unusual because I find that most people coming into the church have no awareness of him or his influence. Even lifelong Methodists have only a passing knowledge. So given Read the full article…
