Disaffiliation is such a strange phrase. After a career as a pastor among Baptists who spent most of my career tearing ourselves to bits with anger, division, and preacher fights over theology and politics, your story is so reminiscent of my journey and observations—that God often is not to be experienced in our institutional thrashing about. A staff member we interviewed once asked me, “Who do I have to hate to be part of your church?” I was stunned, but it was such an honest and revealing question. I recall the twelve who walked with Jesus—envious, politically divided, so different, … Continue reading The Disregarded Longing

The Save Act is a law designed for a problem that doesn’t exist It will fail—I hope—and should. The attempt to move the Constitutional vesting of elections from the states to a federally controlled process is dangerous and unnecessary. I have been hearing accusations of voter fraud since I first voted in 1972, and I have lived in six states since then. It was usually in conversations after an election, or when someone was angry about the world changing. But the nearest thing I see to it is sports fans on social media after their team loses. It is passionate, … Continue reading Leave It Where They Founded It