I love mornings. I refer to mornings as my holy time. For me, mornings are spent with God. One of my favorite activities is writing in my prayer journal. I'm very much a visual learner, and seeing words makes them come more alive to me than hearing them. This is my...
Flint, Michigan — The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation granted a total of $253,250 to repair and improve parking lots and other infrastructure for Flint’s three Help Centers. The Help Centers, located at Bethel United Methodist Church, Asbury United Methodist Church...
I was diagnosed with myopia shortly after I started High School. I noticed that I was having trouble reading what the teacher was writing on the chalkboard. Worse, I couldn't see the scoreboard from mid-court. So the coach had to yell out how much time was on the...
Feedflint hoop house ready for harvest … credit Asbury Farms The Season of Lent is a special time of year for the church. The diversity of ways in which churches around the world experience this season offers insight into the different ways that people experience the...
Our group finishes with Postcards from Babylon on the first Wednesday in March. Our next selection, Praying with the Church by Scot McKnight, will take us through Holy Week. Altogether we plan to spend seven weeks with this book. 1 Prayer is a practice that the vast...
The separation of Church and state is just one of many battlegrounds that prompt public debate among legislators and persons who spend regular time in pews. For example, an opinion piece written by three professors at the University of Virginia School of Law claimed...
Anyone who has an email address or spends time on the internet knows that not all content is safe to download to your computer or phone. There is the risk that a download will install unwanted code on your device. Sometimes the unwanted code is just annoying. However,...
While reading parts of the Book of Daniel, I couldn't help but take a side trip to explore the song's background with the same name. The song Daniel was written by Bernie Taupin and put to music, and recorded by Elton John. The common name is apparently a coincidence....
We finished our discussions of Braving the Wilderness by Dr. Brené Brown. So now we’re ready for our February selection. The book that we’re using as a key resource for our series, the Way, is sure to spark interesting, if not controversial, discussion. In his book,...
This past week I attended a tribute to a friend and colleague, the later Rev. Alonzo Vincent. Born in Chicago in the 1940s, Rev. Vincent experienced life as a prophetic voice commissioned by God and as a black man. Speaker after speaker shared stories of admiration...