This comes from my friend Dan Dick, formerly of GBOD: Zombies — by definition — are lifeless corpses that continue to function in an imitation of life, generally doing more damage than good. They are frightening, and if George Romero is to be believed, they seek one thing — to feed upon the living. Unfortunately, […]
Author: Jay Voorhees
Jay Voorhees is a pastor, writer, and community activist located in Nashville, TN. Jay currently is the pastor of the City Road Chapel United Methodist Church in Madison, TN, and is engaged in helping to connect others to the example and teaching of Jesus Christ and to take seriously Christ’s call to love our neighbors in radical ways.
Jay is the co-founder of The MethoBlog, a site that aggregates the writings of Methodist-related bloggers throughout the world, and is the former managing editor of The United Methodist Reporter. Jay has been involved in the United Methodist Church at both the local and national level since 1988. Jay is also the owner of Only Wonder Media, a boutique book and media publisher.
Folks often wonder about the availability of affordable housing in Nashville. Here are a few recent statistics from MDHA: Nashville currently has over 5,300 units of public housing available for those in need. The occupancy rate of those units is 98 to 99%, with some 3,000 persons on the waiting list to fill vacancies. Currently, […]
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Food for Thought in Today’s Economy
This is classic: HT: http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2009/02/what_the_world_looks_like_in_e.php
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ROFL
I don’t know if you have heard about Microsoft Lab’s Songsmith program, but it was supposed to be Microsoft’s answer to Garageband. In theory, anyone was supposed to be able to sing a song into the software and the program would automatically add instrumentation, allowing folks to feel like they were “writing” songs. The software […]
This morning, I watched the inauguration of President Obama with 400 neighbors and friends at the Belcourt Theatre in Hillsboro Village. The viewing “party” was sponsored by Nashville for All of Us, the group leading the opposition to the English Only amendment being voted on in Nashville this Thursday. I had been scheduled to speak […]
…the end of an error. Our prayers are with you President Obama.
…the end of an error. Our prayers are with you President Obama.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking quite a bit about the notion of connectionalism, and how that concept is unfortunately broken in relation to the United Methodist Church that I love. As I was writing on this topic, there was a particular direction I was headed in thinking about renewing the […]
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More connecting coming
Sorry for the dark hole that came after a flurry of posts, but Sunday come, an election is getting close, and I am juggling too many things. More will be coming later in the week.
This morning I woke up thinking about my last post and realized that I had missed an important piece of the puzzle: the ultimate goal of being “connectional,” that is, what are we trying to achieve in connecting. That is an important question to ask, for the goal helps to determine the tools and means […]
One of the problems we face with describing ourselves as a “connectional “ is that it assumes that an actual connection has been made. Put another way, we describe an outcome as an objective reality (that we are connected) with little ability to either demonstrate or explain how that connection has been made, or the […]
Last night I had a chance to sit down with Chuck Russell and Clif Guy, the tech gurus of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, Jack Ewing, director of the Foundation On Evangelism, and Gavin Richardson, my partner in crime, to talk about technology and the church. As is typical in […]
Last night I had a chance to sit down with Chuck Russell and Clif Guy, the tech gurus of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, Jack Ewing, director of the Foundation On Evangelism, and Gavin Richardson, my partner in crime, to talk about technology and the church. As is typical in […]
My youngest Anna started her songwriting and performing career today. Enjoy her first hit, “Hey Cupid,” produced by her very proud papa. heycupid.mp3
This past April, I had the chance to make a fourteen day trip to Israel. It was a life changing experience, one that I will carry with me throughout my life, and it has connected me with that place, and the people who live there. Sitting over here, thousands of miles away from that place, […]
As you pull into the church parking lot, you notice the normal throng of people gathered by the front doors, the smoke billowing around them as they take a last drag before going to swear off their addictions. You push through, nodding to one of the guys you met at another meeting, and enter the […]
As you pull into the church parking lot, you notice the normal throng of people gathered by the front doors, the smoke billowing around them as they take a last drag before going to swear off their addictions. You push through, nodding to one of the guys you met at another meeting, and enter the […]
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For Unto Us . . .
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Merry Day After Christmas
Advent and Christmas this year has been perhaps the most intense that I’ve experienced in the past 12 years of ministry, so there’s been no time for writing. So, in the few minutes I have this morning before heading back to work I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas season, and I pray […]
In lieu of writing a formal review of the 2008 Acoustic Christmas show, here are a few superlatives that reflect my opinion of the evening. Most Talented As I stated earlier, I was surprised at the level of talent overall, expecting a few clunkers along the way. There was one who didn’t make the grade […]
only wonder understands 