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My Mother Gave Me Back To God

Posted on May 24, 2013 by admin

My mother gave me back to God. If you believe that, raise your hand. My mother never gave me to anybody. Mom knew her sons would grow up and get married, but she never quite understood the full implications of … Continue reading →

Posted in People I've Known | Tagged church, clergy, differentiation, Father, Genesis 2:24, God, Hannah, Hannah and Samuel, marriage, ministers, mother, parents, Samuel, separation, son | Leave a comment

Pray This Prayer With Me

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

God, we pray especially for those: living at Quagmire Lane listening to Mr. Profundis cleaning up the messes of Fuddle Dumb trying to catch Roadrunner. And we give thanks for: kids and teens and grown-ups who have not lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Pray This Prayer With Me | Tagged Charlotte NC, childhood, church, Fuddle Dumb, kids, liberal Christianity, pray this prayer with me, prayer, Profundis, quagmire, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, Roadrunner, teens, Wedgewood Church | Leave a comment

Time To Take A Hard Look At Your Church

Posted on May 6, 2013 by admin

Is your church egalitarian? If not, why not. It’s 2013. Don’t you think your church has had enough time to be egalitarian? If it’s not egalitarian, what makes you think it will be? Do you trust only male voices to … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrating Diversity, Re-thinking and Re-doing church | Tagged Charlotte North Carolina, Christianity, church, church polity, discrimination, egalitarian, emergent church, gender, gospel, Jesus, LGBT equality, LGBT spirituality, Liberal, liberal Christianity, ministry, permission giving church, poor people, rethinking church, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, Wedgewood Church, women in the church | Leave a comment

Search For Best Poor Person

Posted on April 26, 2013 by admin

We at Wedgewood Church are looking for the best poor person. We know Jesus said if you have done it unto the least of these you’ve done it unto me. So if we just have to do something for Jesus … Continue reading →

Posted in Re-thinking and Re-doing church | Tagged beggars, capitalism, Christian ethics, Christianity, church, critique of church, emergent church, financial assistance, homeless, Jesus, mission of the church, poor, poverty, prosperity, re-thinking church, Wedgewood Church | Leave a comment

When A Church Member Should Go

Posted on March 6, 2013 by admin

At Wedgewood we begin our worship services with what we call an extravagant welcome, a phrase we learned from the United Church of Christ. An extravagant welcome to us means, in part, welcoming what new people can add to … Continue reading →

Posted in Re-thinking and Re-doing church | Tagged church, church conflict, church dynamics, church music, community, Community and Growth, Diversity, extravagant welcome, Jean Vanier, Southern Workers Assembly, uniformity, unity, Wedgewood Church | Leave a comment

The Second Call: Disappointing People/Churches

Posted on March 4, 2013 by admin

Years ago, starting fifteen or so years ago, the more liberal Wedgewood became the more people left it. During that difficult time I found this excerpt from Jean Vanier’s Community and Growth very helpful. I try to keep Vanier’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Re-thinking and Re-doing church | Tagged apathy, brokenness, called to preach, carrying cross, church, clergy, community, guilt, Jean Vanier, John 14:12, liberal Christianity, loneliness, messianic complex, resurrection, suffering, Wedgewood Church, wound, you will do greater things | Leave a comment

Gay Biblians

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

Every now and then a Gay Biblian will come to Wedgewood. Unless they learn about textual criticism, canonical criticism, church history, and problems in Biblical interpretation, even though they enjoy being at a church where they can be who God … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible/Theology, Sex/Gender/GBLTI | Tagged Biblian, biblical interpretation, canonical criticism, Christian, church, clobber passages, clobber verses, fundamentalist, fundamnetalism, gay, Jesus, LGBT, sexual orientation, text, textual, textual criticism, thinking faith, Wedgewood Church, Word of God | 1 Comment

First Baptist Church of Discontent – Paid Nursery Worker

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

Posted in First Baptist Church of Discontent Anywhere USA | Tagged church, church conflict, church controversy, church nursery, church nursery worker, minimum wage, nursery, nursery worker, peace and justice | Leave a comment

One Reason I Don’t Want To Be Like Jesus

Posted on February 22, 2013 by admin

There are many reasons I don’t want to be like Jesus, but one of the main reasons is Jesus, according to the gospels, spent a lot of time right smack dab in the middle of suffering people. How depressing. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Devotionals | Tagged a man acquainted with grief, a man acquainted with sorrows, church, grief, hospice, hospital, Isaiah 53:3, Jesus, senior care, suffering | Leave a comment

People Like You Get The Hell On My Nerves

Posted on February 5, 2013 by admin

Let me break this to you gently and slowly: YOU GET ON PEOPLE’S NERVES. We all do. We get on the nerves of people who love us, work with us, go to church with us. Truth be known, if we … Continue reading →

Posted in Devotionals | Tagged church, community, Community and Growth, God, God's Spirit, group dynamics, illusions, Jean Vanier, relationships, self-awareness, tension, troubled relationships | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: church

My Mother Gave Me Back To God

Pray This Prayer With Me

Time To Take A Hard Look At Your Church

Search For Best Poor Person

When A Church Member Should Go

The Second Call: Disappointing People/Churches

Gay Biblians

First Baptist Church of Discontent – Paid Nursery Worker

One Reason I Don’t Want To Be Like Jesus

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