Opening Worship, May 19, 1:30 PM
               The tone has been well set by our opening worship for the 46th Annual Gathering of the Southern Conference of the UCC.  I’m here with two voting delegates from Corinth – Tad Texer and Anthony DeNuccio.  It’s been good already to greet lots of friends from Catawba County and [...]

In the immortal words of my wife, 22 degrees is a lot better than 12!  That’s the difference between West Virginia and northern Ohio in January. 
Linda, Kelly Barefoot, and I are on the way home from the annual board meeting of Faithful and Welcoming Churches in Cleveland. 

People have asked me about a transcript of last night’s conversation with Mitchell Gold on homosexuality.  The evening was videotaped, and at some point we will make that available.  What follows is not what was said, but the notes I prepared in advance. 

This blog entry is designed for follow-up comments to “A Community Conversation About Homosexuality” at Lenoir Rhyne University November 4, 2010.  You may read the entry and comments without registering on my blog, but to post a comment you need to register. 

As long as Linda I have been in the United Church of Christ, the issue of homosexuality has been an unavoidable subject.  Well, maybe “unavoidable” is the wrong word.  You can avoid almost any subject you want in our culture.  We could have avoided the UCC altogether.  But we sensed God’s call to be right [...]