I Didn’t Know They Had a Feast

Byhenry March 3, 2015

Today, says Allan Bevere, is the feast of John and Charles Wesley. The source of this is The Lectionary Page. It is, however, listed amongst the Lesser Feasts and Fasts. (It’s an Episcopal site. What can I say?)

Bible Study | Christianity

No Paul Study Tonight

Byhenry February 16, 2017

Due to scheduling conflicts, or more precisely a wall-to-wall day, I will not be doing my video Bible study tonight. I’ll resume next week. In the meantime, you might enjoy my interview with Thomas Hudgins. You can read a text interview here (not a transcript, but a text version of the interview), or watch:

Christian Ministry | Christianity | Education | Religion | United Methodist Church

On a Virtual Seminary Education

Byhenry March 3, 2011

Jason Byassee explains why he voted to allow up to 2/3 of seminary credits to be taken online in his United Methodist conference (HT: Joel Watts). Readers of this blog will already be aware that I believe it’s inevitable that the majority of education is delivered by virtual means. Not only that, I think this…

Christian Ministry | Complementarianism | Egalitarianism | Gender Roles | Women in Ministry

Which Paradigm to Check

Byhenry September 3, 2007

David Lang has written an interesting post at Better Bibles dealing with the complementarian/egalitarian debate. Readers of this blog will realize that I’m not terribly moderate on this particular issue–I’m passionately egalitarian. David does make a good point about polarizing arguments, however: . . . In the process of trying to persuade those who disagree…

Christianity | Historical Jesus | Marcus Borg

On the Retirement of Marcus Borg

Byhenry February 24, 2007

Marcus Borg has announced his retirement. After completing his current class at Oregon State University, where he has been the Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, he will retire, and may even slow down a bit! He does have a few books in the works and other outlines in mind, according to this story…

Christianity | Religion

Christianity and Insanity

Byhenry March 26, 2011

A couple of days ago downtown I passed a church sign, and in the changeable portion of the sign it read: Revival! | Thursday Night | 7 pm. Now that’s a common enough sign on churches these days. Many churches have a tradition of an annual revival. At the same time each year an outside…

Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job

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Football: I suspect God was indifferent to the ultimate outcome

Byhenry January 26, 2015

Bruce Epperly, author of the recently released book Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job, questions the view that God determines the outcome of football games (or, I suspect, any other sport), rewarding the faithful and punishing the unfaithful. The title to this post includes his money quote from his post, Is God a…