No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins,Continue reading “Wineskins and Panic”
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What I Love Doing
Jan Edmiston has been a favorite online voice of mine for many years. She blogs almost daily about issues facing people in ministry, churches, and denominations as Christendom continues to crumble. Recently, she shared a question from a colleague: What are you paid to do that you love doing? The idea behind the question isContinue reading “What I Love Doing”
Johnnie Walker Spirituality
As I made my way through every Oscar nominee for Best Picture the past couple of months, the movie American Fiction stood out as one of my favorites. It stars the incomparable Jeffrey Wright as a struggling author who becomes so frustrated with what kind of Black art sells that he fires off a satiricalContinue reading “Johnnie Walker Spirituality”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 