

Declaring Things Unclean Creates Stumbling Blocks
The TRANSFIGURED manuscript is out with advance readers and my editor, so I'm in waiting mode. Thought I'd share a devotional entry from it while I wait. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant


Where True Love Is Included on RMN Resources Page
We got some exciting news last week! Where True Love Is has been listed as a recommended resource by the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN)! To find it, just got to the site's Resources page, click on LGBTQ and Christianity, and scroll down to the Ws. We are grateful for the wonderful work RMN does to increase inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in Christian congregations, and prayerful about the United Methodist Church's current struggles in this area. May God continue to work thro


Newsflash: Reading Robert E. Lee Passages does not Build Unity
We attended a prayer breakfast this morning. We'd wanted to go but didn't pursue it due to the tightness of our purse strings, and so when we got an invitation from our church to be their guests, we were excited, and recognized the blessing. The keynote speaker was a white male executive of a regional not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, who explained that this year's theme was unity. He told stories of several people he'd seen touched by loving interactions with others