This is a shot outside our townhouse. As you can probably guess, there isn’t a ton of green space around where we live. There are a couple of nice parks that are very close (and people remind us that Grant Park is also close, but it’s about five blocks...
Lingering at the cross
Before United Methodist pastors get fully ordained, they have to write a pretty long paper touching many points of theology, church life, the ministry, the sacraments, etc. Then they go in front of a small group of other pastors (and a layperson or two) and...Read moreI firmly believe that when Jesus himself wanted to explain to his disciples what his forthcoming death was all about, he didn’t give them a theory, he gave them a meal. Of course, the earliest exponent of that meal (Paul, in 1 Corinthians) insists that it matters quite a lot that you understand what you are about as you come to share in it; but still it is the meal, not the understanding, that is the primary vehicle of meaning.