"Holla At The Church" or "My Favorite Methodist"
Not too long ago, one of my parishoners forwarded me an email that had been sent to them. The author of the email was a denominational representative from the United Methodist Church named Sandy Jackson. I call this her " Jerry Maguire Memo." If you don't know what that is... well, just watch the movie Jerry Maguire and you'll figure it out. At any rate, I am not sure what the "higher ups" in the UMC thought of this brilliant, biting and stream of consciousness outpouring from one of their own. I sort of wish someone from the Presbyterian Church (USA) bureaucracy would dump something similar. It might give me some hope. As it stands, this memo says a lot of awesome stuff, calling out the Church on it's own hypocrisy and lack of real mission. Here it is... It is time. Maybe it is beyond time. We have talked long enough. We have taught, preached, written articles, published books, created websites and blogs, and spe...