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Dear #vaumc23, when the GC delegation makes a motion to endorse regionalization as a way to continue to #beUMC I will be voting yes. Learn more on p. 54 of the BoR

So far the best part of the #vaumc23 book of reports is all the great campus ministry reports on p. 67-75.

#vaumc23 please read! The VA Delegation to GC2024 has a report in the BoR p54 which you should read ahead of time. During the verbal report the del will move that VA supports “regionalization” Please read this FAQ so that you’re ready to vote! doc.vaumc.org/GC2024/Christm…

“Do you show your wonders to the dead O Lord? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?” dvcolby.com/2023/04/08/hol…

Gethsemane’s Essential Oil dvcolby.com/2023/04/07/get…

That’s why the first Palm Sunday is rightly understood as both a religious and a political event. I mean, they’re storming the capital for Christ’s sake (albeit armed with nothing but foliage and a foal). dvcolby.com/2023/04/02/the…

The book of Psalms opens with these words, “Blessed are the righteous who do not walk in the counsel of the ungodly or the wicked.”  But what about the rest of us? dvcolby.com/2023/02/28/psa…

@RootAndrew Preach!

Respectfully, please don’t call this practical theology. PT is the core generative problematic between divine and human action. The ‘problem’ is the distinctive epistemologies that separate divine action and human action. PT wrestles w/ how they CAN impossibly cohere.

"As the Jacob story draws to a close I am struck with this question, was any of Jacob's wrestling ever even necessary?" dvcolby.com/2023/02/05/wwf…

"Jacob and Rachel's love story enough to make you swoon… until you realize they’re cousins." dvcolby.com/2023/01/29/a-b…

"The thing about Jacob’s Ladder is it turns out not to be Jacob’s ladder at all." dvcolby.com/2023/01/25/lad…

@flemingrut In the same spirit I have been tempted to celebrate eucharist facing the cross and not the congregation. Old fashioned I know…

Omigosh. I've been wanting to complain about this but didn't want to seem even more antiquated than I already am. But I'm in good company here! The music in worship is dedicated to the praise of God, and the hearers participate along with the singers/players in a common offering.

"It’s what Hollywood calls a 'meet-cute' but in Biblical studies it's called a 'well-meeting narrative,' and this one is the first of four... dvcolby.com/2023/01/09/a-b…

So if you wish to give him something on this Christmas Eve Give him what he wants, what he came here to receive.   Give him your sin, and your shame, and your doubt,  Give him the things you can’t talk about.  Give him your rage, and your age, and your c dvcolby.com/2022/12/25/joy…

Best part of my day was getting to chat with and thank @RootAndrew for his work which has shaped a lot of how I preach, and pastor, and pray, and even play with my kids.

@RootAndrew When church is about sustaining itself through the accumulation of resources (souls, dollars, butts) the possibility of a Sunday with lower attendance means it’s not worth the effort of gathering nytimes.com/2022/12/18/us/…

"The thing about a lot of Christian doctrine including the virgin birth is that it’s often not really about what we think it's about." dvcolby.com/2022/12/18/tom…

@KaraNSlade It is just the best

"When I heard Rob Delaney's story, suddenly I was in the desert too, having a crisis of faith myself. But soon, even in the wilderness, Rob became my Isaiah too." dvcolby.com/2022/12/11/mir…

It happens every year, right before the holidays some tragedy strikes to bring into stark relief the difference between the world as it should be and the world as it is. And so, once again, Advent begins in the dark. dvcolby.com/2022/11/27/adv…