The prophet Habakkuk wrote long ago: “O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen?   Or cry to you ‘Violence!’ and you w...

Many of us have sung the old hymn “Have Thine Own Way, Lord.”  It reminds us of the text from Jeremiah 18:1-4 that proclaims God as the g...

The first African American Methodist churches in the early 1800s were controlled by white senior pastors and trustees.   Chafing under oppr...

During the season of Epiphany, of revelation, we ponder the story of the Magi who came from the East to visit the Christ child. There are ...

Long ago the Apostle Paul asked the Corinthians: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have f...

The Christmas of 1977 was one of those years that Christmas Day happened to fall on a Sunday. I was in my first year at Asbury Theo...

As I reflect back on the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980’s it was a time of intense fear in the church I was serving in Bal...