A CRITICAL CONVERSATION

Earlier this month I filmed a commercial for a course I am teaching in the Spring semester at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC.  It is truly a new world when academic courses come with video commercials to help students decide what to take in a given semester.

FLIPPING OUR RELATIONSHIP TO CHURCH BUILDINGS

Earlier this month I was a part of what United Methodists call a Paragraph 213 Meeting - a meeting looking at the viability of current congregational ministry versus the possibilities of their community.  In this case it was a P213 on Steroids - as we were looking at 10 churches simultaneously across a small urban region.  Among the things that became clear: