Recently a colleague of mine pointed out that in the coverage of the Republican convention, how utterly homogeneous it appeared. Actually, one explanation is that all those Blacks, Latinos, Asians and youth are all there, it is just that perverse ...
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"Notes From the Balcony" - 5 new articles

  1. Community Organizing
  2. Olympic Trials
  3. Standing for the Gospel
  4. A Parable
  5. Being Honest About the Bible, Pt 4 - Reliable Sources
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Community Organizing

Recently a colleague of mine pointed out that in the coverage of the Republican convention, how utterly homogeneous it appeared. Actually, one explanation is that all those Blacks, Latinos, Asians and youth are all there, it is just that perverse liberal media that keeps the cameras from revealing their presence. I did see two black men and one black woman. There was one Asian man but I
   

Olympic Trials

Does Wesley’s notion of going on to perfection include taking three-tenths of a second off my 50 meter freestyle personal best time? The drama that went on in Omaha during this past two week period of Olympic swimming trials is ridiculous. Because of the inherent inequality present in the challenge of becoming an Olympic team swimmer – i.e. the competition only comes every four years, there are
   

Standing for the Gospel

So does your congregation stand for the reading of the Gospel? A friend who knows that I am interested in this subject put me on to this wonderful video. Enjoy! They do! Now most of us Methodists don’t do a formal “Gospel Procession” as part of our worship, although they do one at Duke Chapel each Sunday morning. Most of us are Episcopal light (as in not heavy, as opposed to dark!) At the
   

A Parable

The advent of the American Idol Top 12 and the first season when selections from the Lennon-McCartney songbook are available for performance, reminded me of a parable. There once was a young man named Paul, who played his guitar backwards. He fingered his chords with his right hand and strummed the strings with his left. Many, who saw him, said that this was wrong. It says in the instruction
   

Being Honest About the Bible, Pt 4 - Reliable Sources

Reliable SourcesI think I got my first personal copy of the Bible when I was in fourth grade. I still have it although now the copy generally sits on a shelf. It served me well through high school. In college I bought my first Oxford annotated. Later, I was introduced to JB Phillips translation and somewhere in those years I first met Clarence Jordon and his Cotton Patch renditions of the Gospels
   

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