by Chris Walters | Sep 21, 2014 | Bible, Sermons, Theology
Several weeks ago when I was researching for my video on the “Gospel According to Comedians,” I came across the graphic on the cover of today’s bulletin. At the time I thought this graphic would prove useful or provocative to me, but I wasn’t sure for what purpose, so...
by Chris Walters | Jan 12, 2014 | Bible, Sermons, Theology
Every good story has to have conflict, otherwise it’s not a story. I remember many years ago when I was a student at Columbia College Chicago studying fiction writing, we sat in semi-circles in four-hour class sessions practicing all sorts of visualization and...
by Chris Walters | Jun 26, 2013 | Bible, Theology
From one perspective, today’s Supreme Court decisions in the DOMA and California Prop 8 cases move the U.S.A. much further down the road to full equality for same-sex couples and their civil liberties to freely live family life and enjoy the same benefits afforded...
by Chris Walters | Dec 9, 2012 | Bible, Sermons, Theology
Recently when I was driving our son Tim to school, he started a conversation with me about something from last year’s school experience when he was in first grade. It reminded me of something from the year before when he was in kindergarten at Clissold Elementary in...
by Chris Walters | Nov 15, 2012 | Bible, Methodism, Theology
The following comes from one of my recent email conversations generated by my correspondent’s question, “What happens to our body and soul after we die?” Me: How deep do you want to go? Your questions lead into a quagmire of thousands of years of...
by Chris Walters | Nov 11, 2012 | Bible, Sermons, War
Today is Veterans Day, which has its origins in the November 11, 1918 armistice agreement to end WWI, 94 years ago today. WWI was known as the “Great War” and “the war to end all wars.” Within two decades after the end of the “war to end all wars,” Germany violated...