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“Action or contemplation?  Service or worship?  Hospitality or prayer?  For as long as the church has existed, we’ve debated these dichotomies.  Which is more important – kneeling at the altar, or mopping the church floors? ...
In this Sunday’s sermon, “Low Anthropology,” from James 3:1-12, Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annandale, Virginia, begins by quoting an essay entitled Confessions of a Bad Christian by Harrison Scott Key....
“Late in life I got into fly fishing,” Will Willimon says. “The thing that impresses one about fly fishing, an aspect of the sport that stays with you no matter how long you practice it,...
“I suppose it’s only natural to present the Christian faith as some sort of answer to our questions, a kind of primitive, but sometimes effective technique, to help you obtain whatever it is that you...