At annual conference, I called for “The Year of the Nones.” You undoubtedly know what a none is, as the fastest growing religious population in the US, it’s someone who marks “none” when asked what one’s religious affiliation is. I am praying for the nones whose names were given to me at annual conference (2315 […]

One Sunday I came home from church when I was the pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Ken and I were reporting in on the interesting things that happened that morning as we have for 35 years! I said, “A really interesting woman came to church this morning. Her name is […]

And so Paul traveled the known world, sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. He went from

I was sitting behind a worship leader during a service and I could see her notes about what the praise band would be singing next. On the paper, she had written, “Be Thou My Version.” I chuckled but then wondered if this was some new contemporary song that I hadn’t heard of yet and frankly […]

“So why are you now trying to out-god God, loading these new believers down with rules that crushed our ancestors and crushed us, too? Don’t we believe that we are saved because the Master Jesus amazingly and out of sheer generosity moved to save us just as he did those beyond our nations? So what […]

In reading Acts 13:1-5, it becomes clear that there are two kinds of Christians: those who are sent and those who commission and support those who are sent. The Holy Spirit chose Barnabas and Saul to be sent (literally called apostles) and that the rest, including Simon, Lucius, and Manaen who were leaders, were to […]