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 […]

Technically speaking–and it is very difficult to gear one’s self up enough to speak technically on Mondays–but, technically speaking, Easter is only eight days old this morning. That is, according to historic Christian teaching, Lent and the great forty-day run-up to Easter was what ended eight days ago on the morning of Sunday, 23 March […]

As I write this, Easter Monday 2008 is almost half gone. Within the hour, it will be time for the office of nones, a thing that usually means my creative day is done and that the time has come to start with the mail and my backlog of reading materials. Today is a bit off-routine, though, […]

Christ in risen!
Therefore, let us keep the feast.
Alleluia. Amen.

Jesus, at about the ninth hour, cried out and said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Jesus, then breathing His last, said, “It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.”
Saying #60, Book IV  - The Words of Jesus

For those looking for devotional reading as we move from Lent into Pentecost and beyond, let me sing the praises for The Words of Jesus. As a religious professional, I find it very difficult to get into the Bible text for my personal devotions.  So, I welcome this orthodox offering that shakes things up and […]

If you want to see the kind of spectrum of emotion that a discussion of The Words of Jesus can evoke, go to http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/mar/13/bold-radical-jesus-comes-alive-in-his-words/?feed and look at the “Comments” that follow James Dowd’s copy.
I had a much loved uncle, dead now these many years, who for half a century practiced medicine in rural northwestern Tennessee. […]

www.emergentvillage.org is running a podcast with Tony Jones, Doug Pagett, and Phyllis Tickle talking about THE WORDS OF JESUS. Be sure to check it out.

Ken Wilson, senior pastor of the Ann Arbor Vineyard and a great friend and colleague of several years standing, is releasing a powerful book, Jesus Brand Spirituality, the end of May. In preparation for that release and in support of it, he has opened up one blog already…www.kenwilsononline.com… and will be opening another within the […]

As groups begin to gather around The Words of Jesus with the intention of reading them together, they will inevitably discover new ways to approach the work. And that is a very good thing. It is also a very good thing when they take the time to share with the rest of us what they […]