Dave Buerstetta on striving to do justice and love others while walking humbly with God
"It's Friday...but Sunday's comin'!" That's a popular refrain among Christians on these final days of Holy Week. But we might reasonably respond in our most skeptical tone, "Yeah, right!" Over on my favorite blog, Slacktivist, Fred Clark posted Holy Saturday. First seen in 2010, he's reposted it every year. Fred has written a ton of …
Today is known as "Good Friday." Well, it's actually only known as such among English- and Dutch-speaking people. Other names for this day include, according to UMC Discipleship Ministries, "'Holy Friday' among the Latin nations, "Great Friday" among the Slavic peoples, "Friday of Mourning" in Germany, "Long Friday" in Norway, and "Holy Friday" (Viernes Santo) among Hispanic …
Continue reading Moving from “Good” Friday to a holy Saturday
Last week we were treated to excellent content on the relationship between faith and science, first from Deacon Beth's column and then the music, prayers, and Pastor Jim's sermon in worship. In our youth ministries we spent the month of January examining that same relationship, utilizing the experiences of some of our congregation's scientists (THANKS …
I had my usual for breakfast: a bowl of Kashi Go Lean cereal with raisins. (I prefer it with blueberries or raspberries though.) No word on what President Obama - or anyone else present - had for breakfast at this morning's National Prayer Breakfast. (Not that I looked that hard, mind you. And by "not …
Welcome to another edition of 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. …
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 …
Check out the link to Fred Clark's Slacktivist over to the right there. Hover over it for a moment and you'll read that I describe Fred as my favorite blog. Here's a link to a recent example of him displaying that "wickedly sharp wit." In this post Fred absolutely excoriates the infuriating, pervasive smugness of …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 