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Allan R. Bevere
Allan R. Bevere is a United Methodist pastor and a fellow at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio. His blog is part of the CCblogs network.
The nitty gritty of the saintly life
What makes Christians saints is not that they are above it all, but that they in the middle of it all—working, serving, and ministering. Saints, just like the Lord they serve, are not afraid to get their hands dirty for the cause of the gospel, are not discouraged by the almost unmanageable need they see each day, and will not be influenced by those who find scandalous their willingness to associate with the kinds of people Jesus spent time with in his ministry.
Preaching and the life of study
Fred Craddock, who taught preaching and New Testament at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, ...
What about the 50 days of Easter?
In many of our traditions we observe the 40 days of Lent. But we don't seem to be very good at observing the 50 days of the Easter season.
Yes, we pull out all the stops in worship on Easter Sunday, but then we seem to immediately go back to business as usual.
The Trinity is not an appendix to the Christian doctrine of God
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, which is appropriately observed after Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit....
Why "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" misses the point
It has become an exercise in free speech and a challenge to the federal government. "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," the birth child of the group Alliance Defending Freedom, is designed to challenge the 50-year-old Johnson Amendment (501 c 3), which prohibits tax-exempt charities from publicly endorsing or opposing a candidate for office or working on their behalf. On Sunday, October 7, pastors who choose to participate will stand in the pulpit and endorse and/or oppose candidates for office—and no doubt focus on the presidential candidates themselves.
Writing divine thank you notes
The custom of writing thank you notes is a good and necessary one....
Forty days of Lent? What about the 50 days of Easter?
One thing I have noticed as a Protestant whose tradition observes the 40 days Lent: we don't seem to be very good at observing the 50 days of the Easter season....
The seasons of life are in God's hands
I have never found the New Year very interesting. While I enjoy the
celebration of Christmas, the New Year is basically a time to hang a
different calendar on the wall and to spend the first month trying to
remember to write 2012 instead of 2011.
The Board of Ordained Ministry as social media police
Jeremy Smith at Hacking Christianity has written a post...
Lent: Asking for our daily bread
Many years ago on a mission trip in
Haiti, our group was ministering in the isolated mountains in the west
near the Dominican Republic. The village where we stayed was where the
road ended. To say it was a “road” was an exaggeration.
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