Who doesn’t take a selfie with blood running down their face?
Jerry and Beth lived across the street from the parsonage on OK 5 in Gould, Oklahoma. We became fast friends in the short time we lived in southwest Oklahoma. Late-night card … Continue reading
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We do not lasso grace, grace lassos us.
From my latest Can We Talk?
… Continue reading Read MoreLast month I was invited to do a breakout session for the Mockingbird Tulsa Conference. The theme was The Kindness of Grace. Father Everett told me the theme was an omage to Ted Lasso. Today’s
What are a couple of Southern Baptists doing among the Liberals?
From my recent Substack, Can We Talk?
Taken together, these two events, the question I received in Tulsa and Marty’s trolls, led me to reformulate Voltaire’s speculation regarding Southern Baptists.
“One hundred years from my day, there will … Continue reading
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From my recent Substack: Can We Talk?
If you are like me, growing up in a Southern Baptist Fundamentalist version of the Christian Faith, any reference to anything in the Bible as myth raised a red flag. It was probably worse than that. For many, it still is.
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It’s an Op Ed!
Religion reporting is as fraught with peril as any other specialized field of journalism.
Pastors, at least seminary-trained pastors, learn to discern the genre of the text under consideration. Reading the Psalms? It is helpful to be aware of how Hebrew Poetry works. If we simply say it is … Continue reading
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