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David Alan Black: A Marathon Plan
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by Dr. David Alan Black, professor, marathon runner, mountain climber and author of Seven Marks of a New Testament Church, Running My Race: Reflections on Life, Loss, Aging, and Forty Years of Teaching, The Jesus Paradigm, and more! Is your church up to doing a marathon? A marathon is 26.2 miles. It’s a slugfest. But…
Transforming (Mainline) Congregations
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Today I present the first of three interviews with Energion authors about how mainline congregations can be transformed and can renew their ministries. As I read the responses, however, I sensed that these answers don’t just apply to mainline congregations—any congregation can benefit from some of these practices. While I presented the questions for this…
Allan R. Bevere: Questioning the Questions
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One of the things I have learned as a student of Stanley Hauerwas is to continually question the questions being posed for debate on any issue and not to simply accept the terminology and definitions that frame so much modern theological and ethical discussion. From Allan R. Bevere: Faith Seeking Understanding (Note to readers: In…
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Can Christians Use Reiki?
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Recently, as our congregation’s sexton was changing the sermon title on the congregation’s marquee, a woman drove up and asked him, “Are you the new age church?” He responded, “We’re part of the United Church of Christ and our pastor is a biblical preacher.” She continued, “But, how can you be Christian? You’re celebrating earth…
A Different Kind of Liberal
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Allan Bevere posted a link to three posts by Roger Olson, in which Roger successively defined Fundamentalist, Evangelical, and Liberal. Now Energion author, United Church of Christ pastor, and theologian, Dr. Bruce G. Epperly, responds to Roger Olson’s definition of Liberal. A growing number of liberal Christians are rethinking what it means to be liberal. Many…
Ruth & Esther: What Can We Learn from Immigrant Women in an Patriarchal Society?
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Dateline: July 5, 2016, Energion Pulications’ Tuesday Night Google Hangout with host, Henry Neufeld, and Dr. Bruce Epperly, author of Ruth and Esther: Women of Agency and Adventure.
