From this year’s Oscars —- Before delivering the powerful ballad, Gaga had a message for the audience about unity, telling the crowd of famous faces, “I wrote this song with my friend, BloodPop, for the film Top Gun: Maverick, in…

Adam Hamilton wrote very, very recently—- “I have never felt more hope for the future of the United Methodist Church.” This was the sentiment expressed last night as I met with Resurrection’s laity and clergy attending the Great Plains Annual…

Shamelessly copied from online friend Randy Nelson to benefit you and your heirs — The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it… Psalm 24:1 (NIV) Our Biblical stewardship journey can be…

Philip Amerson wrote this earlier this week and has graciously given me his expressed permission to share it with you here — Gonna miss the Indiana UMC annual conference this week. Of course, I am about two lifetimes ahead clocking…

Ken Carder shares a sentiment shared by many, including me, in his final two paragraphs here —- I’ve been attending Methodist/United Methodist annual conferences since 1961. As a bishop, I presided over 19 Annual Conference Sessions. In retirement, I have…

Jason Moore, colleague and online friend in Ohio, has graciously given me his expressed permission to share this with you. He says quite well what many of us feel as we move forward (highlights mine)— I hope as the 2023…

FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY MAGAZINE’S SITE — While COVID-19 will be with us forever, we can celebrate that the state of emergency is over. But some are not in a celebratory mood. In my conversations with students, pastors, friends, and family,…

Leonard Sweet gets credit for this version —- When asked by a colleague how he had liked his sermon, Dr. Mahaffy, former Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, replied that it was like the peace and mercy of God. The clergy…

“Don’t let your arrogance get in the way of God using your mistakes.” —- The Jesus Revolution film Yup!

“A fire is hottest when it is smoldering.” That’s what Kevin J. Brown wrote in a piece we’ll look at next time. If you’re going, “Joe, what’s an Asbury?” let me point you to an open source — The 2023 Asbury…