The Centenary Connexion 10/12

Friday Greetings - February 5

Nearly 30 years ago now, Stephen Covey published his bestselling work Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Like many of the time, I...

Friday Greetings - January 29

Good Friday Centenary friends. The climate has cooled down, it seems in the world and in the news. Two weeks ago I was wearing shorts and...

Friday Greetings - January 22

Mr. Wesley famously urged the People Called Methodist to “make all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.” When Mr. Wesley...

Friday Greetings - January 15

My Facebook feed is filling up with photos of people receiving the vaccination. I have heard from folks in our congregation that they are...

Friday Greetings - January 8

The beginning of a New Year is an opportunity for us to reflect on our priorities and commit ourselves to new habits. Few things reflect...

Friday Greetings - January 1

For some 260 plus years, the people called Methodist have marked the beginning of a New Year as a time of renewal, a time to recommit...

Friday Greetings - December 25

Merry Christmas! This Sunday, we tackle the question 'Where Do We Go From Here'. This year has been one full of many strange twists and...

Friday Greetings - December 18

Each Sunday during Advent, we light candles on our wreath. First one, then two, and finally this week all four. Slowly the light grows...

Friday Greetings - December 11

One of my professors in graduate school, at an institution whose name does not begin with DUKE, grew up in Holland during World War II. ...

Friday Greetings - December 4

Friday Greetings - November 27

Friday Greetings - November 20

This Sunday, the last Sunday in our church calendar year, the first Sunday before Advent, is recognized as Christ the King Sunday. This...

Friday Greetings - November 13

There is a famous description of the task of faith as “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” This week, we turn to...

Friday Greetings - October 30

Isaac Newton once wrote to a friend, “if I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Every year on the first...

Friday Greetings - October 23

Angelus Silesius was a seventeenth century mystic and he once wrote, “Shout on, O Seraphim, that which of you one reads; I know that God,...

Friday Greetings - October 16

Most reading these words look forward to Sunday worship. Whether in person, online, on the radio…whatever format we are able to connect...

Friday Greetings - October 9

Dr. King spoke of humanity being “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” There is a...

Friday Greetings - October 2

An author with the wonderful sounding name of Skye Jenthani writes, “The future is an essential part of our faith and lives, because when...

Friday Greetings - September 18

On the bulletin board on the door to my office is a letter I received in late June of this year. It is there in part because of the...

Friday Greeting - September 11

This Sunday, we are focusing on forgiveness, and what the model of forgiveness looks like. Peter wonders if forgiving an offender 7 times...