Monthly Archives: July 2025

Hauerwas on the Church “Standing against the powers we confront”

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We continued working through Stanley Hauerwas’s essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community.” You can listen to the audio HERE. Hauerwas is talking about the church of our age (he’s writing in 1991, but it seems still … Continue reading →

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God’s Passion for People

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

In the book of Jonah we see God’s passion for people. That passion is demonstrated not just on behalf of “his own” people Israel, but even on behalf of their enemies in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire. The … Continue reading →

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Three Simple Rules?

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Since I’m working on a piece on Wesley’s General Rules I reread Rueben Job’s book Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living yesterday afternoon. It’s a tiny book –  fewer than 70 pages. It’s easy to read in a … Continue reading →

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Discussion on Hauerwas on Church & Discipleship

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Tomorrow is Stanley Hauerwas’s birthday. Coincidently, we began reading his 1991 essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as Disciplined Community” today. This essay from The Christian Century can still be found online HERE. We got through most of page 1 … Continue reading →

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The Treachery of Memes

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

I first noticed this meme circulating several years ago: The first assumption is that the people on the left are, well, leftists, and that being “of the left” means desiring “more government.” Given this assumption, the meme, produced by an … Continue reading →

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Lockean Self-Ownership

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Do you think many Americans today agree with this claim of John Locke? “Every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of … Continue reading →

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The Gospel of John, Chapter 4

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We continue working through the Gospel of John John 4:1-12 John 4:13-26 John 4:27-42 John 4:43-54

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Can We Argue with God?

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

How would Jonah’s story have been different if he’d taken time to engage with God, to ask questions and even to argue? Could he have come out the other side in a better relationship with God and with a better … Continue reading →

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