We are all both Mary and Martha

Maybe five times in my life I’ve cooked for more than 20 people. But, during seminary, I decided to take our youth group to a Christian Rock music festival, where we camped and cooked in a barely improved farm field with 18,000 other young people and their dedicated adult leaders. After a day of music […]

Jesus- bigger than the Bible

Why did it take our Methodist Church some 1956 years to live into Jesus’ Easter commission of women preachers?  How do we square Paul’s teachings about women with the words and spirit of Jesus ?    Why are we so slow to follow? Luke chapter 10 begins with Jesus sending out 72 disciples healing and proclaiming that “The kingdom of God has come near […]