Going on to Perfection...

1) Do you celebrate 4th of July (or some other holiday representing independence?) Not really. At least, not this year. Usually, my family...

The papers have been handed in. The classes have all (save one) been attended and noted to death. The final has been taken. This can only...

I survived driving it. In the rain. Ben and I were supposed to pick somebody up during Annual Conference, so we missed half of the ordinati...

Somebody over at the Christianity community at livejournal posted this link: Insurers have withdrawn the cover on their virginity taken ou...

GEN-X RISING: Decline in young leadership threatens Methodism's future . I wonder if the decline in young people being interested in the...

I was reading a bit of Hildegard of Bingen's visions for Church History class, and one of them in particular struck me. She used the ana...

I've discovered this past Conference that it really does me no good to be cynical about the motivations of the New England Conference. F...

Ok. My first two points are related to each other. Lately, I've felt that while all these sorts of issues are important (homosexuality, ...

There isn't much to say about it at this point, as I am at the brink of exhaustion, but I will say that I have several thoughts about wh...

Today, I'm meeting with Rev. Jack Johnson about the possibility of a supervised ministry placement in Trenton, NJ. It's a two-point ...

I just had a thought while at work (slow day in the admissions office...and I didn't bring my sermon with me to work on, nor any of my r...

Part of last night's Church History lecture was on constructions of "orthodoxy" and "heresy" in the early Church. I ...

Hmmm. No one seems to ever read this blog. Then again, I haven't updated it in several months. Anyway, I'm hoping that this will b...

Melissa Yosua Exegesis Paper November 28 th , 2005 Isaac and Ishmael: Issues of Inheritance The story of Abr...

Meh, blogger bothers me. I had this whole preamble to my paper written out and when I went to preview it and come back it disappeared. The g...

Texts: Genesis 6 - 9; Genesis 18:16 - 19; Judges 19 - 21 The God portrayed in each of these stories subverts our image of the character of G...

This is a less-than-perfect essay, but it's supposed to be more "reflection" from what I gather, so here it is... Melissa Yos...

Brace yourselves -- this is worth a whole whopping...6 points. Out of 200. Jonah addresses many issues on a variety of different levels. I...

This is my theological reflection on baptism. It do not believe it has any major gaps or holes in it, but it is an work-in-progress. However...