Pastor Page (October 17, 2007) We’ve been talking about demographics in the last couple of weeks. After Wednesday-night supper, John Sikes presented a graphical view of the Tuscaloosa demographic make-up and that of our neighborhood, and compared them to the demographics of Covenant Presbyterian Church. Not surprisingly, the demographic make-up of CPC looks little like [...]
In last weeks newsletter, I reprinted an article from Presbyterian News Service about Ann Weems, poet and Presbyterian, and it got me thinking: we Presbyterians are a literate bunch, aren’t we? We pride ourselves on education, our denomination has split over the issue in the past, and we seem to have our share of literary [...]
Here’s a link to the Ann Weems article I referenced in this week’s newsletter. Ms Weems is a presbyterian poet and peace activist with several volumes to her name.
Pam and I went to see the movie Stardust a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t think I was going to like it, but I actually sorta kinda did. I didn’t love it, as in “I’ve gotta see it seventeen more times,” but I did like it . . . it has enough nicely-realized [...]
In 1983, Howard Gardner published a book—Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence—that changed the way we view human intelligence and learning. In the book, and in his subsequent research, he proposed that intelligence is not monolithic. That is, intelligence is not a single “thing,” measurable by a single number like an IQ score. [...]
I was online the other day, trying to find a reference to a movie, when I noticed one of those ads that pay for all that online content that had, beneath a rendering of Jesus’ face, the words “Jesus Didn’t Exist?” And this being news to me, I clicked on the ad and found that [...]
I was online the other day, trying to find a reference to a movie, when I noticed one of those ads that pay for all that online content that had, beneath a rendering of Jesus’ face, the words “Jesus Didn’t Exist?” And this being news to me, I clicked on the ad and found that [...]
I was online the other day, trying to find a reference to a movie, when I noticed one of those ads that pay for all that online content that had, beneath a rendering of Jesus’ face, the words “Jesus Didn’t Exist?” And this being news to me, I clicked on the ad and found that [...]
There’s a story told by Non Government Organizations (NGOs) around the globe, and it goes something like this: A village is situated on a river, just downstream from a bend, so they can only see what flows by their doorstep and a ways downstream. One day a fisherman spies something floating around the bend, and [...]
Last week we talked about church revitalization and renewal. We saw how maybe 75% of churches in mainline denominations—including ours—are in need of revitalization, and that what revitalization entails in one church will likely be different than in another. For this reason, cookie-cutter methods and solutions just won’t cut the mustard. Fortunately, though, congregations are [...]
