STANDING AS AN LP All sort of hopes and dreams are wrapped up in Ordination: one’s hopes for the Church, the feeling of affirmation, the nerve-wracking pressure of representing God to the world, etc. One of the hopes for me was to be Ordained with my wife. It was the assuring feeling that I’m not [...]
General Conference 2012 is approaching. Petitions are submitted; delegates are elected; travel arrangements are being made; reimbursement accounts being tapped, as we speak. One might get the illusion that it’s [...]
You may have heard that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has organized the 10th Anniversary 9/11 Ceremony at Ground Zero in a manner that excludes prayer and the presence [...]
I’ve never been successfully evangelized. I’ve never successfully evangelized anyone else. I’m a recovering cynic, but a solid skeptic. I believe in people rather easily, but I doubt ideas, theories, [...]
“Letters to a Young Poet” is authored by Rainer Maria Rilke (bio). They were inspired by correspondence with Franz Xaver Kappus, an admirer and aspiring poet. The 10 letters are [...]
As a pastor, I read for a living. It may come as a surprise that I’m not a naturally avid reader. I’ve always been slow and easily bored as a [...]
AMONG THE HILLS is written by Christopher Gudger-Raines, a Provisional Elder in the West Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
