This last week I received an e-mail that I think is of considerable relevance to all of us who are engaged with using and/or teaching the Sayings format of The Words of Jesus. The letter was no note, believe me; it was a letter, and it was entitled “A Dilemma!” with considerable and obvious sincerity. […]

We buried Rick Kersey on Low Sunday, which, this year, fell just three weeks ago on March 30th. As a term or phrase in the Church’s calendar of times, Low Sunday is always the Sunday after Easter and gets its name, so far as I can tell, from the fact that Easter has been so […]

 We are all—every one of us–pre-disposed to occupying a few chosen opinions with more passion than that with which we embrace most others. Each of us harbors those few, favored ideas that matter to us, despite the fact that those very same concepts rarely matter to anybody else in anything like the same configuration or […]

Alan L. Shumway is the pastor of one of this country’s more intriguing churches…or at least of a church with one of this country’s more intriguing histories.
 
The First Baptist Church of Waterville, Maine, where Shumway is pastor, was founded in 1818 by the first president of what was at the time Waterville College. In due […]