Introduction Are you perfect, becoming perfect? No, not in your field but as a Christian -- loving God, loving neighbor? Hmm . . . as I think about it, that does spill over into your field but in a different manner than the way in which I grew up striving after perfection. Today's Christian Devotional Classics post turns attention to John Wesley (1703 – 1791) and his A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1766). John Wesley (1703 - 1791) John Wesley's brief biography from Christian Classics Ethereal … [Read more...] about Christian Devotional Classics: Christian Perfection
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The Incarnational Stream & Higher Education: Family
Introduction Have you considered the influence of your family history (or how you frame your family history) on your vocation and daily life? In Personal Foundations in Ministry, one of my assignments will be to complete a genogram. Have you completed a genogram? If so, what does it reveal? If not, what do you think it might reveal? When preparing a class presentation on the The Incarnational Stream/Tradition, I could not resist delving into my family's Moravian roots1 and drawing connections with my present … [Read more...] about The Incarnational Stream & Higher Education: Family
Rebirth of Peacemaking in a Much Different Context
As a descendant of Moravian settlers in Lititz, PA, I made sure not to miss the presentation of the 2010 The Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies to Katherine Carté Engel (Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M) for Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). I greatly appreciated her challenging lecture and the opportunity afterward to chat with her on “God in America”, the general inability of radical Christian … [Read more...] about Rebirth of Peacemaking in a Much Different Context