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Veteran’s Day Weekend usually brings a lot of sales and commercial promotions. But this year, the Virginia United Methodist Church is asking you to join your fellow Methodists and shop for the Afghan…
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Tony Robinson and Will Willimon reunite for round 2 of Q&A with the Crackers and Grape Juice Nation. The Hauerwas Mafia submitted questions Tony and Will to consider.
To get the episode started Will responds to critique he and Stanley Hauerwas…
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When Christianity Today selected Jack Levison’s ‘A Boundless God: The Spirit According to the Old Testament,’ as one of two books focusing on the Bible to read in 2021, they asked, “Who knew that a word study could read like an adventure story?” If you yearn to have your own Bible study feel like an…
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We are preparing for a series of conversations with the godfather of the podcast Will Willimon and his BFF Tony Robinson. Will and Tony have been guests on the pod. To help us gear up (and to keep Statler and Waldorf on track) we want to hear from you. What questions or topics would you…
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“We’re living on borrowed time.” The church I serve is like most churches in the United States in that we have an aging infrastructure that requires more maintenance and repairs each year. The HVAC system we have was designed for a usage period of 50 years. We are in year 60. We are truly living…
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We find ourselves in the midst of the adventure of war. It began as soon as the turkey carcass was picked clean and turned into broth many turned away from the Thanksgiving table and towards the bright lights of Christmas. Water dripped from the plates now resting in the drying rack as many found themselves…
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The anxiety is beginning to rise. Bags are being packed. Fights confirmed. Hashtags established. Delegates, observers, and press are preparing for the called General Conference of The United Methodist Church. For outsiders, many cannot fathom why the UMC is continuing the debate fight over the issue of human sexuality. In 2019, for the majority of…
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Be baptized, repent and believe! You might hear this words preached or even be the one preaching on them tomorrow. You might even be reading this while writing your sermon, making the final preparations for worship on the second Sunday of Advent. Repentance is part of the preparations for Advent. I write about the topic…
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