I had lunch with some pastor friends Wednesday, and one of them confessed to “giving up blogs for Lent.” He meant by this that he neither was reading blogs (including my own), nor was he contributing to his. It sparked interesting conversation over our lunch (along with, of course, prognosticating the upcoming Royals season.)
Turns out [...]

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Jan Edmiston is a pastor in the Washington DC area. She blogs with a probing mind and a heart for doing authentic ministry in the 21st century. Her blog is called A Church for Starving Artists, and I find myself going there regularly to learn from her. She challenges me, and us, with posts (like [...]

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This blog runs on software called Wordpress. Its installed on the internet service provider that I use to operate herringweb.net, and its being used to run thousands or millions of blogs worldwide. (People who don’t want to mess with having it run on their own isp can get a free wordpress blog at wordpress.com, or [...]

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Here’s something I found at the website of another Presbyterian blogger: Denis Hancock’s The Reformed Angler. The LA Times published an Op Ed a few days ago from Stephen Prothero, the chair of the Religious Studies department at Boston University. Its worth a read…
http://www.latimes.com/…/la-oe-prothero14mar14,1,3102398.story
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Here’s the key quote:
ALTHOUGH THE 110th [...]

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Sunday I led the third of four Lenten series events at the church. We’ve been looking at Prayer: prayer in the bible, obstacles to prayer, and exploring together various ways to pray. Jeff and I have been trying to balance corporate and individual prayer as well as the various types of prayer (some people use [...]

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Jim Bonewald is small-church Presbyterian pastor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whom I “met” online through his blog, The Church Geek. Blogging pastors tend to be pretty cool, and Jim is no exception: I’m even taking advantage of his online appeal to join in a March Madness bracket pool called “Decently and in Order.” Did I [...]

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So, this picture might give you some idea of how the youth group sees me. This is from our 2007 Dinner Theatre, where we raised over $1500.00 for our summer work trip to New Orleans. Those who came to the dinner ate good food (lovingly prepared by our parents and delightfully served by our youth) [...]

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A bit more difficult than I anticipated moving to a new template. But I’ve started to, and hope to have the blog up and running again soon….
I’d love to hear your comments about the new look and feel, too. You’ll notice that I’ve tried to integrate the old sanctuary picture and the capital improvement logo. [...]

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