https://videopress.com/v/MpeddjXg?preloadContent=metadata Write a sermon. Check. Record sermon on video. After so many weeks of pandemic preaching, Friday has become production day. These are notes on how I accomplished that task today. Decide on a setting. I'm asking myself if this sermon calls for a particular backdrop. Last week I filmed on location because the crescendo... Continue Reading →
90 Days of Cold Hard Facts
Since the Ides of March, our congregation has uploaded all worship material to YouTube, about 220 videos in all. For 18 Sundays now, we have not worshipped together in person. We are no longer complete newbies to YouTube, yet we are still far away from the sophistication of having thousands of subscribers. I thought that... Continue Reading →
Implicit Bias
I’ve enrolled in on online course offered by the United Methodist Church’s General Commission on Religion and Race. The course is entitled, “Implicit Bias: What We Don’t Think We Think.” It’s a simple course that you take at your own pace in three sections: 1) Recognizing Implicit Bias 2) Questioning Implicit Bias 3) Transforming Implicit... Continue Reading →
Totally Unscientific Gut-Level Opinion About the Future
I don't imagine that my President, my Governor, and my County Commission will all agree on a day when we can "go back to church." For the sake of argument, however, let's say that they do. On Jugaustember 32nd we're all encouraged to have corporate worship again. That being the case, I don't imagine that... Continue Reading →