This year, Open Table Ministry in Durham, North Carolina is organizing an items drive with churches in the Corridor District of the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. […]
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Moments with Mike: Incarnational Love – A Harder But More Blessed Way
On most weekday mornings, my daughter calls us by Duo so we can talk as she and our grandchildren get ready for the day. Like any family with small children, […]
Sabbath Life 2022 – offered by Life Around the Table
Sabbath Life is an ecumenical invitation to clergy and ministry professionals to practice the rhythms of Sabbath, stepping away from our daily lives to delight in God, creation, and each other. Our unique […]
Moments with Mike: Ascending As We Are
There are 15 individual psalms that all bear the superscription, “A Song of Ascents.” These are collated and found in Psalms 120-134. The prevailing theory is that the “ascent” is […]
Moments with Mike: Context Matters
Context matters. This was a lesson shared consistently in all my homiletics and exegesis class. Context gives clues on authorial intent and guides interpretive streams. Certainly this is true when […]
Moments with Mike: Diversity of Opinion
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone had similar ideas and practices? Perhaps not. My family is in the process of planning for a vacation when we all will gather for […]
Moments with Mike: God at Work in Their Midst
Charge Conferences in the district are off and running. In the meetings already accomplished and in the reports I’ve already read, things are just as I suspected … INSPIRING. The […]
Moments with Mike: Two Views
One of my favorite sites while on pilgrimage in Israel is a stop atop Mount Scopus. Because it is the highest peak of the Mount of Olives (which actually is […]
Duke: Clergy Health Initiative
Clergy – Check your Conference email for an opportunity to participate in theNation’s longest running study of clergy health and well-being. If you cannot locate your survey, you are asked […]