My dear brothers and sisters, A couple weeks ago I wrote a letter to one of your members who is gay and in deep pain. (You can read it at: https://davidkendall.fmcusa.org/2015/11/18/to-my-gay-friend/ ) You know him, but not as he is, not as he truly is, and you are not aware of his painful struggle. You not …
Category Archives: Mission
This is our Story, our Song
I’ve been thinking about that classic gospel song, Fannie Crosby, Blessed Assurance, especially its chorus, which I would adjust slightly, as follows: this is our story, this is our song, praising our savior all the day long! I’d would suggest that in ways far beyond what Crosby could have foreseen, this chorus is so apt, …
Missional Mal-Practice
Hardly anyone gets kicked out of the church because they did nothing. Even among the clergy, who are employed, we seldom relieve them for “doing nothing.” Can you imagine members of the church being brought up on charges of inactivity—for doing nothing right or nothing period? Our practice might suggest there could be no such …
WHEN ISIS KILLS
Last evening we were moved to read of the plight of followers of Jesus who suffer and die at the hands of ISIS. This particular report came from a church official in country who plead for Christians everywhere to help them. As we have often read over the last year, people who bear the name …
A RESURRECTION—SO WHAT?
The Jesus story declares that the human story does not end with a death! To be sure, death looms largely within the story. Along the way we read of people dying, and as the story moves forward Jesus begins to make ominous predictions of his own death. The simple, sad, and undeniable fact of life …