by Steve Sheely | Oct 9, 2021 | Pastors Blog
Every community in our nation should have places like this. Can you member the last time you moved into a new apartment? There’s a little more to it than finding a strong friend with a pick-up in exchange for pizza and beer. It’s an expensive process: Utility hook-ups...
by Steve Sheely | Aug 8, 2021 | Pastors Blog
This is my column in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Saturday, August 7, 2021. I discuss the issue of Christians not getting a COVID vaccination. The pandemic has had a surprising side effect. It is an x-ray. COVID-19 has illuminated our culture like a...
by Steve Sheely | Jul 28, 2021 | Pastors Blog
On Monday a church member called me because her daughter has a problem: she has rescued dozens of animals and needs to cut hay for them. But the hay cutter arrived unassembled. So I arrive with my toolbox and get to to work. You never know what this job will bring...
by Steve Sheely | May 9, 2021 | Pastors Blog
The over-spiritualization of the Song of Songs is theological body-shaming. In the last twelve years, I have written these columns about marijuana, mixed martial arts and my monastic adventures. But my 2019 column about pornography got the most attention. Sex sells....
by Steve Sheely | Mar 9, 2021 | Pastors Blog
COVID has accelerated an already existing change in our religious landscape. I have a tendency to make unrequested proposals. I’ll have some “great idea,” write it up and send it to some poor, unsuspecting soul. Most of the time these folks are very gracious to...
by Steve Sheely | Jan 8, 2021 | Pastors Blog
Christian Nationalism is neither. They carried crosses. They carried flags and banners with Christian symbols. Clothing was adorned with symbols and slogans about Jesus. Am I describing medieval crusades? Christian nationalism was on display at last week’s terrorist...
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