June 2019

May Memories

Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.
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This week, representatives from the United Methodist Church met for a special conference to try to vote on a way forward regarding the deep division across the church about LGBTQ inclusion. It turned out to be a very bad meeting.








I have been struck recently that almost every time Jesus uses the metaphor of yeast, it is negative. He warns against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees, referring to their distorted teachings that misguide the people. But in one parable, he compares the Kingdom of Heaven to yeast that a woman works into three measures of flour until it is all leavened (Matt. 13:33).
