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A post earlier today concerned Pope Benedict’s encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (Charity in Truth), which addresses social issues involved in economic development and recovery.  When I checked my mailbox (the real one – out by the road) I found that this month’s issue of The Advocate, the monthly newsletter of the Mississippi Annual Conference had arrived [...]

Today, Pope Benedict released his encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), the first social encyclical since Pope John Paul II wrote Centesimus Annus in 1991.  Signed last week on the feast day of St. Peter and St. Paul (June 29th), its public release was obviously timed to coincide with the beginning tomorrow of the [...]

Danny pointed out an interesting news item from CNN yesterday.  At the end of a year of celebration of the 2,000th anniversary of the year of St. Paul’s birth scientists have conducted carbon-dating tests on the bone fragments contained in a sarcophagus in the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome.  Their conclusion:  that the fragments [...]

In the last couple of years there’s been a fair amount of media attention regarding a phenomenon called “change blindness”, where - employing a technique involving a saccade - a photograph or video is altered, but our brain simply fails to process the change.  I’ve prepared a modest example above using Rembrandt’s famous painting, The Return of [...]

That’s the last thing I remember saying before the big accident – ha! Just kidding. I did scan the lesson for last Sunday and messed up not covering it. Hope we can hit it a quick lick this coming Sunday and then move in the June 21 lesson.

Speaking of that “mysterious ways” thing (well, we probably did at some point), check out this story from CNN.com: Founder of Hookers for Jesus marries Christian rocker in Vegas (CNN) — She was a call girl working the streets of Sin City. He’s a guitarist in a heavy metal band. They found commonality in their [...]

Our quarterly series calls today’s lesson, “Moses Flees”.  I chose another title. Here Moses  encounters, or rather he chooses, “his people”.  Notice that the first use of the phrase “his people” in verse eleven is ambivalent, it isn’t until the second use that the choice is made: the Egyptian is beating one of Moses’ people: [...]

It’s late, so just a couple of thoughts as we finally kick off our study of today’s lesson scripture. First, consider that what we are studying over the course of the next three months is fundamental to understanding who Jesus is, why he came, why he did what he did, why he died, rose again, [...]

When I decided to throw together a quick post to introduce the writer of this Summer’s Adult Bible Studies series, of course I “googled” Kevin Baker.  In the course of following some of the links, I ran across one Methodist blogger that I’d read a couple of years ago and was chagrined to see that [...]