If you Google the words “Shouting Methodist,” you’ll discover that the phrase is not an oxymoron. Instead, you’ll read these words in the first article: One name commonly applied to early nineteenth century Methodists was “shouting Methodists” – a name Methodists were glad to accept and make their own. What was meant by the term, Read the full article…

Few sayings strike more fear into or evoke more apologies out of 21st Century evangelicals than the ubiquitous: I’m spiritual, not religious. We hear it from skeptical family members, from tweed-jacketed professors, from latte-slurping millennials, and we fall all over ourselves to agree, to affirm, and to identify.  In fact, on more than one occasion, Read the full article…

With the death earlier this year of Eagles’ co-founder Glenn Frey, Rolling Stone magazine just released a Special Edition, Ultimate Guide about the band.  The cover promised two pieces that I simply couldn’t pass up:  1) Don Henley on the making of every album and 2) Their 40 Greatest Songs.  As you might suspect, I Read the full article…

Yesterday at Good Shepherd featured TWO bottom lines. What?  Did I abandon my one point sermon bonafides? Nope.  I abandoned Charlotte, NC instead.  Julie and I spent the weekend in Austin, Texas, helping my sister celebrate her 75th birthday and my mother her 100 1/2.  (When you pass 100, you get to celebrate 1/2 birthdays Read the full article…

You only get rid of what you refuse to get used to. I can hardly tell you how much I believe this, or how vital I think it is in both individual and organizational lives. And I believe it so much because I’ve lived it. In 2010, we who made up the leadership of Good Read the full article…