Gil Rendle is something of a rockstar in United Methodist circles. His work spans almost five decades dealing with leadership and change in institutions –
Author: Adam W. Shahan
Father; husband; fiction author; United Methodist clergy; preacher; teacher; musician
The Form, and What gives it its form
I have a confession to make: I love the form. I grew up in church kitchens and parlors as bereavement dinners were cooked. I had
“Meeting our Mortality:” We’re All Going to Die
7 Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judea again.’ 8The disciples said to him, ‘Rabbi, the Jews were just now
“Measles and Ministry:” Collective Forgetting and Remembering
We now take up a second constituency for evangelism, namely insiders to the faith who have grown careless, weary, jaded, and cynical about the faith.
“Moment Mondays:” The Week After a Bad Sermon
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with
“Generated Grief:” The Facebook ‘Year in Review’, the Psalmist, and the Incarnation
1 I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me. 2 In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the
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