Dave Buerstetta on striving to do justice and love others while walking humbly with God
Last week I had the privilege of accompanying four of my church's Confirmands on the Northern IL Conference Bishop’s Interfaith Youth Bus Tour. We were part of a group of more than 70 teenagers from across the Conference who visited a Hindu temple (which I learned is called a Mandir), a Muslim mosque and a …
Continue reading Some Christians walked into a temple, a mosque and a synagogue…
I hope you'll forgive the continuing shameless self-promotion... I'm pleased to be a part of the fun, interesting, good work going on at The Hardest Question, the blog that seeks to: move Bible preachers and teachers creatively away from hermeneutical cliché, so as to ignite both weekly preparations and insightful conversations for the sake of …
As a follower of God in the way of Jesus, today is Palm Sunday. And it's Passion Sunday. Which, at my church, meant it was Palm/Passion Sunday. We're just all hip mashup like that. Today marks the beginning of what we call Holy Week. That is, the week leading up to Easter. Today we remembered …
Saturday, May 14 is the United Methodist Church’s second annual Change the World Day, how will you participate? Not every detail is chiseled in stone yet, but here’s how the church at which I serve, Woodridge UMC, will join the effort and be counted: Free T-shirts! Yep, that’s right, all Change the World participants will …
Did you know Bishop Jung commended my church this week? I encourage you to read the full statement, but here’s the money quote: As United Methodists, we express that our God calls us to work together with all people to overcome injustice. In our Book of Resolutions, we affirm that our Muslim neighbors are our …
No, I haven't gone crazy (ok, crazier), I haven't lost my calendar, and I don’t mistakenly think it’s Halloween…but I do find the stories in this week’s Lectionary texts from Ezekiel 37 and John 11 compellingly weird, if a tad macabre. So the title of this post …
Continue reading “Frankenstein, a Mummy & Life After Life-After-Death”
[Pretty much every week, I write a...something...for my church's weekly eNewsletter. Way back when, it was my take on a pastoral letter. Then some time along the way, I started thinking of it more like a newspaper's opinion column. Now I suppose I think of it as a blog post. Whatever I write for eNews usually ends …
[Pretty much every week, I write a...something...for my church's weekly eNewsletter. Way back when, it was my take on a pastoral letter. Then some time along the way, I started thinking of it more like a newspaper's opinion column. Now I suppose I think of it as a blog post. Whatever I write for eNews usually ends …
[Pretty much every week, I write a...something...for my church's weekly eNewsletter. Way back when, it was my take on a pastoral letter. Then some time along the way, I started thinking of it more like a newspaper's opinion column. Now I suppose I think of it as a blog post. Whatever I write for eNews usually ends …
Welcome to my version of that blog post staple, the weekly recap/links roundup/info dump. My intent is to highlight stuff I came across this week (or, you know, at least fairly recently) that I found well-written or inspiring or bizarre or...well, or perhaps stuff so good I wish I’d written it myself. I suspect blogging …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 