In the last post, I gave a book review of Donald Connolly's In a Holy Year, Renewing Your Faith: An Anthology of Spiritual Readings. I promised I'd give some life reflections on this, and this is the fulfilment of that promise. This book is more than just a book: the anthology compiler was my first …
What We Were Really Trying to Accomplish in Men’s Ministries
As sort of a follow-up to my last post, I'd like to defend something else that's under attack these days: men's ministries. I actually worked in this field during my time with Church of God Lay Ministries, from when I started in 1996 until the department was abolished in 2010. So I can speak with …
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The Episcopal Snobs and the John Wayne Evangelicals
There's never a dull moment these days, and to shut off the possibility of one occurring we now have the food fight around Kristin Kobes du Mez' Jesus and John Wayne. The most recent volley has been around the illustrious Anglican Anne Carlson Kennedy's review of same, with the usual suspects saying the usual things. …
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I’m Featured in the New Humanist About Working in Heaven
It's the topic that never seems to go away (sorry!) My first post on this topic was in 2012, but just a few weeks ago I wrote this in response--and amplification--to an article which featured my first post in, of all places, MEL Magazine (a secular publication for men.) Now Ralph Jones has written a …
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Things Going Your Way? A Holy Week Reflection
Many of you know that I used to work for the Church of God Department of Lay Ministries. One of my colleagues, who did most of the graphic design work, was a good friend in addition to being a coworker. Sometimes he'd greet me with the phrase, "Things going your way?" It's an easy way …
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The Problem With Social Justice is That It Always Involves Changing Someone Else
Anne Kennedy makes an interesting observation in her piece "What is Really the Problem?": Second, human people are wicked. All people. ALL have sinned and fallen well and catastrophically short of the glory of God. All of the cries about white supremacy, white evangelicalism, patriarchy, and racism all illumine the very false and foolish idea …
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Casting the Seven Mountains Into the Sea
David French's piece on the "Seven Mountain Movement" is in intriguing look into something that I've heard discussed over the years but never really spelled out. He describes the basics of the movement as follows: In its distilled essence, the Seven Mountain concept describes seven key cultural/religious institutions that should be influenced and transformed by …
Work in Heaven? Rubbish!
I got this shout-out from MEL Magazine's Miles Klee about my 2012 piece on working in heaven: I was thankful to turn up one guy, Don C. Warrington, who, though a practicing Christian and once employed by the Church of God, wasn’t having this bull****. “The Scriptures are not very detailed on what our life …
The Part of Psalm 91 That No One Likes
A favourite psalm of many is Psalm 91. Everyone likes this part: Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope …
Church of God Chaplains Commission 9/11 Ministry Presentation
As we come up on another anniversary of September 11, we present this, prepared for the Church of God Chaplains Commission: https://youtu.be/HINdOGSe68k This is a video version of the PowerPoint presentation first shown at the Church of God Chaplains Commission Honors Dinner and Awards Ceremony, Marriott Ball Room, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10 August 2002. This was …
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