Posted on November 14, 2009 by ireverant
My wife is a superstar: she spent last weekend walking all across our city, wearing pink and marching against the scourge of breast cancer. Nearly 3,000 men and women cheered, laughed, joked, cried and walked their way over 60 miles. As they entered the Park Cities area (the hoity toity part of Dallas), the vans [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2009 by ireverant
The discussion about online ordination has got me thinking about the way we order ministry within the UMC. Currently the United Methodist Church has two orders of ministry: Elders and Deacons (bishops are technically still in the order of Elders). We affirm that the laity are called to ministry and make that clear in baptismal [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2009 by ireverant
An interesting thing happened today. Tony Jones ordained Adam Walker-Cleveland with an online petition with the following words:
Adam Walker-Cleaveland, having watched you be ritually abused by the ordination process in the Presbyterian Church (USA), we beseech you to forsake ordination in said bureaucracy.
And please accept the following: We, the body of Christ, hereby ordain you [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2009 by ireverant
THE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM
One of the most distinctive things about the United Methodist Church is the way in which we decide what pastors serve at which churches. I live in the appointment system–I’ve been blessed by it and burned by it. Before I suggest radical changes, let me first shore up my support for it and [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by ireverant
Perkins (the School of Theology at SMU) is hosting Minister’s Week on February 2nd to the 4th. Here’s the link to their site: http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/MinWeek/minweek.html .
The topic: the emerging church! If you are in the Dallas area or are interested in anyway, then you should make sure to come by. MethoMergent Lab is setting up a [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2008 by ireverant
So I’ve put together a rough sketch of goals that came out of conversation at the Great Emergence Conference in Memphis. These especially came out of lunch time conversation and our afternoon during the Hyphenad gathering. If you were in Memphis, I sent an invitation to you through gmail. If you weren’t in Memphis, we’d [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2008 by ireverant
I’ve started speaking with a Graphic Design person to make our banner look a little nicer.
Keep watch Wednesday for a Google Document to start working on.
Peace, Mike +
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Posted on December 15, 2008 by ireverant
If you want to write something to add to our blog, let me know and I’ll add you to the author list. Also, if you have a blog / church / website / podcast that is emergent in flavor, let me know and I’ll stick it on. I’ve already gotten one great e-mail that I’m [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2008 by ireverant
Well here it is…the beginning of a new movement of United Methodists who feel an emergent pull and want to do something about it to make space within the United Methodist Church for new ways of organization, imagination and theology that is more “emergent” in nature.
In the next couple days, I’ll put up some posts [...]
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