There has been an interesting development in several prominent U.S. seminaries in 2023. Religion News Service reporter, Rebekah Barber, notes that a number of Black, female, scholars have ascended to places of leadership in a male and white dominated f…

As you can see below, I have posted my church planting proposal to the Executive Council for consideration for the General Assembly 2010 Agenda. It will not be on the Agenda, but has been referred to a study commission headed by Tim Hill. I spoke with him yesterday and began some good dialogue that I […]

In Amos 4:11

I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were
like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned
to me,” declares the LORD.

It seems that Amos is describing here a natural d…

41 Pentecostalism in Belgium David D. Bundy* The Pentecostal movements in Belgium are small. There are about 2,400 adherents in Flanders and about 3,600…

Since, in both of these accounts of what I will call "The Great Earthquake", there will no longer be any mountains, and also, all islands will be completely gone — Are these accounts of the same earthquake?
Revelation 16:18-20 (…

Many of you know that, in spite of a lot of what turns up on this blog, I am a member of the North Cleveland Church of God and worked for the church’s International Offices in the Lay Ministries Department for 13 1/2 years. So I’m not a stranger to at least some of our […]

Race is the thing we seem to obsess about these days. That, in part, is because Americans on both sides of the political and religious spectrum have hung their hats on it, either explicitly (on the left) or implicitly (on the right). Looking at the results, the conventional wisdom on the subject has been unhelpful […]