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This morning's email included a nugget in the Tennessee Conference listserv with a link to this alarmist forecast: " Hurricane seas...

Two villages in Greece spend a year making 50,000 homemade rockets, sort of like overbuilt bottle rockets, and then on one night of the year...

This is not exactly breaking news to those of us in religious vocations: " Young voters want spirituality, but not necessarily religion...

I assessed last Wednesday that a coup by Iran's Republican Guard was an increasing possibility given the increasing domestic disorder t...

The Rev. Kevin Watson of the UMC asks what is the current state of affairs in United Methodism by the standard that John Wesley warned must...

Early this month Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad promised  "a telling blow against global arrogance," on Feb. 11, tomorrow, w...

A very large minority of elders and deacons of the Tennessee Conference obtained their theological degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School. I...

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The Gospel of Matthew 1:1-6, 18    1 A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:    2 Abraham was the fa...

The idea of reading eBooks appeals to me because I am out of library space in my home. I could buy another bookshelf but there is really no ...

Let's see, what are the vestments the other clergy are wearing? If there was ever a site for "Glamour Don'ts" for clergy, ...

Matthew 1:18-25 makes this claim: Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Josep...

I explained in my November newsletter column ( click here to read )that we are doing financial pledging for 2010 differently this year. In t...

In much of the commentary related to the tragic killings at Ft Hood, attention has been paid to the enormous stress soldiers endure while de...

Myth: We can't produce enough food to feed the people in the world today, much less in years to come. Fact: The world today produces eno...

First Things has an essay by Rabbi Ben Greenberg, Orthodox Jewish Chaplain of Harvard University as well as the Orthodox Rabbi of Harvard H...

The Social Principles of the United Methodist Church declare , "Health care is a basic human right." The Principles offer the wea...