Category Archives: Theology

Set Talk

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Richard Heyduck

I don’t remember when I first ran into Paul Hiebert’s idea of contrasting bounded sets and centered sets in our understanding of evangelism. It was either shortly before I finished seminary or shortly after, making sometime in the late 1980s. … Continue reading →

Posted in Dave Schmelzer, Evangelism, Theology | 3 Comments

New Appointment Methodology

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

We (pastors and lay leaders from across the North District) met with Bishop Huie and a couple of cabinet members this morning in Ore City to hear about the new philosophy of appointing pastors to churches. They had intended to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ministry, Texas Annual Conference, Theology, Uncategorized, United Methodism | 3 Comments

Another, older, NCLB

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Charles Taylor (in A Secular Age) considers the depth of Reform in the middle ages to be much greater than the line from Wycliffe, to Huss, to Luther and beyond, connecting it to the rise of the modern preoccupation with … Continue reading →

Posted in Charles Taylor, Education, Public Schools, Spirituality, Theology | 2 Comments

Joining the Big Story

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

One of the books I’m reading now (having a short attention span, I usually read several at a time) is Dave Schmelzer’s Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist. On p. 105 Schmelzer says, This [he’s been talking … Continue reading →

Posted in Charles Taylor, Dave Schmelzer, Metanarratives, Spirituality, Theology | 8 Comments

Short term friendships

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Back in my seminary days I did my supervised ministry at a nursing home in Lexington, Kentucky. In the course of a couple of years (I kept visiting there after my coursework was completed) I made many friends. Pearl was … Continue reading →

Posted in Friendship, Theology | 5 Comments

The Great Enemy

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

“God needed him more than we did.” Have you heard that before? Sometimes it’s modified, “God needed another lawyer, doctor, plumber, nurse, good person, angel” – the list goes on. I’ve read the Bible several times and I still can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Death, Theology | 5 Comments

Thinking about Justification

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

One of the books I’m reading now is John Piper’s The Future of Justification: A Response to N.T. Wright. I’ve enjoyed Tom Wright’s teaching since reading his New Testament and the People of God about 15 years ago. Piper interacts … Continue reading →

Posted in John Piper, Justification, N.T. Wright, Theology | 3 Comments

Criticizing My Baby

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

My children range in age from almost teenage to over twenty. My baby, however, was conceived in the early 1980s, first came to light in 1998, and went public in 2002. Here’s a picture of my baby: Haven’t seen many … Continue reading →

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Church in Saudi Arabia?

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Now that a Christian church has opened in Qatar, is it only a matter of time until a church is opened in Saudi Arabia? There are only a few million Christians there (officially, only the expatriates working there), so having … Continue reading →

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Healthy Theology

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I ran across this excerpt from an interview with Richard Rorty at Faith and Theology:  “I’m delighted that liberal theologians do their best to do what Pio Nono said shouldn’t be done – try to accommodate Christianity to modern science, … Continue reading →

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