It’s a story of contrast, of course, a parable of conflicting responses... two boys, two sons, two brothers... and two divergent paths.

We haven’t done right by her, we Protestants. We really haven’t. We haven’t treated her fairly. As a matter of fact, we haven’t done much with her at all. We’ve never claimed her as one of our own.

Do you know what I almost wish? Not really, I guess, but I almost wish there were some things Jesus had never said. They’re so hard to understand, and hard to explain.  

If you could have been present, physically present, for any one brief period of time, say 15 minutes, during the life of Jesus, what period of time would you choose? If by some miracle of time warp, like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future, or Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married, or, better yet, the crew of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek IV, you could go back in history and be a literal witness to any scene recorded for us in the Biblical account, what quarter hou

I need your help! May I ask you for your help? I have the privilege...responsibility...  of delivering 4 sermons next month to the national United Methodist Convocation of Adult Workers with You. It’s an honor, I suppose...28 people turned them down before they got down to me...but that’s all right. It’ll be fun and a nice trip.