Here’s our conversation on The Techology Show. I haven’t watched it yet, but I had a good time with all the guys. Thanks to them for inviting me.
We flowed from one topic to the next, but we hit on: Wesley Seminary, a pastor’s spiritual formation, multi-ethnic issues, and ancient-future worship.
I invite you all to join me on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 (11 am Central time), when I have the honor of being a guest on The Techology Show.
Hosted and produced by Tony Casey, Heath (“Keith” whenever he is ordering food or drink) Mullikin, and Matthew Tietje, The Techology Show is a weekly podcast discussing “technology, theology & everything in-between.” Although I have not met any of the hosts face to face, I do call Heath a friend, and I thank them all for the quality communication they have brought to the table in The Wesleyan Church, especially as it was done not as a directive from above, but as a result of their grassroots effort and personal passion. This is a great podcast for all, not only Wesleyans. Continue reading On Appearing on “The Techology Show ” (shameless self promotion)
The final lesson Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez has for Connor ‘The Highlander‘ MacLeod is to feel what is going on around him. I suppose that is where I am now. As I approach my final week-long intensive course for completing my M.Div. at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University I should process some feelings. Continue reading “And now, the last . . .” Usually I am several months ahead in coming up with potential research paper topics, but for the final two Wesley Seminary praxis courses (Congregational Spiritual Formation and Congregational Relationships) I have not come up with anything solid. This is especially frustrating because spiritual formation is supposed to be one of my strengths. Here are the two ideas I have been tossing around for spiritual formation.
This Spring, the seminary praxis course I will be taking is Christian Proclamation. This is essentially our preaching course. At Wesley Seminary, in each praxis course we write an Integration Paper (IP). This is a research paper in which we create a real life scenario that addresses a topic related to the course. The goal is to construct an answer based on biblical exegetical research, theology, church history, and social science. I have come up with two ideas for an IP on preaching. Continue reading Integration Paper Thoughts: Christian Proclamation
This post may be a case of “misinterpreting boldly so that the Spirit may come” (Ken Schenck).
Yesterday, as I drove away from seminary to visit my brother in Chicago, I had NPR on the radio. A story that played was a recollection of the lynching that led to song “Strange Fruit.” Although the song speaks about “southern trees” being the hanging trees, this particular famous/infamous lynching occurred in Marion, IN. When I learned that fact, I suddenly felt creepy; Marion, IN is where Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University is located. I realize that Marion is a very different place than it was 1930, and few, if any, of the adults who were a part of this crime are alive today, but as an African-American, some things just disturb my spirit.
February is going to be a busy month. I have 3.5 preaching Sundays. (The .5 sermon is our church anniversary, where all of the staff contributes somewhere, but I may get out of that one. I mean, what I supposed to do to follow last year’s Mr. Roger’s Tillman’s Neighborhood?) I think some pastors would be glad to only have three preaching days, but with the spring semester of seminary underway and being bi-vocational, February is going to be a tough month. This may be the last post for a little while, but I thought in might be interesting to hear how Wesley Seminary‘s innovative M.Div. approach, which received some criticism before the first syllabus was even written, is benefiting my ministry. Continue reading New Style Seminary, New Style Pay Offs
