Author Archives: Richard Heyduck

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About Richard Heyduck

Pastor of Hardy Memorial Methodist Church, a Global Methodist Congregation. PhD Fuller Seminary MDiv Asbury Seminary BA Southwestern University

Trial date set for openly gay Methodist pastor

If found guilty, Stroud could lose her ministerial credentials. Her church has established a legal defense fund to help her pay for church attorneys. If she’s confessed to it, how can she not be found guilty?

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Response to Al Qaqaa

At one time there were 380 tons of high explosives at this Iraqi base. Now (apparently) the explosives are not there. Kerry and his campaign are shouting high and low that this is yet more evidence of mismanagement by Bush. … Continue reading

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N.T Wright comments on the Windsor Report

This is only a tiny (the last) part of an extensive interview with Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, Biblical Scholar, evangelical leader and member of the commission that produced the report. He brings up the very important subject of adiaphora … Continue reading

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Clergy rally against banning gay marriage

It has been more than 100 years since the Rev. Bernice Powell Jackson’s great-great-grandmother was prohibited from marrying her great-great-grandfather. She was Irish and he was black – mixed-race marriages were illegal then in Virginia. It seems odd to say … Continue reading

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Lyle Schaller speaks

Last Summer Lyle Schaller spoke to a group at the meeting of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference. His basic message is that that Conference, if they keep going in the same direction, will not be with us much longer. The … Continue reading

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A Great Hymn with one Bozo line

The third stanza of Henry Tweedy’s hymn, O Spirit of the Living God, contains a Bozo line – one line that makes me cringe every time I read it. Teach us to utter living words of truth which all may … Continue reading

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Purpose Driven Life – Day 10

Day 10 is all about surrender. Some really good stuff. Unfortunately, there is also one sappy, sentimental line. “If you want to know how much you matter to God, look at Christ with his arms outstretched on the cross, saying, … Continue reading

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The Lambeth Commission On Communion

The Windsor Report, in response to the American ordination of Gene Robinson as Bishop, and to Canadian acceptance of rites blessing same-sex unions and to the world wide response to these events has now been published. I’m still reading it, … Continue reading

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Glide Memorial UMC in San Francisco

An example of a UM church practicing generic religion. They don’t need the cross, don’t need the bible, don’t need Jesus. But they have Personality.

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Kirbyjon Caldwell Discusses Entrepreneurial Faith

Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor of Windsor Village UMC, the largest churhc in United Methodism, shares some thoughts on the role of faith in church leadership. Well worth reading.

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