Jim Flowers (Page 78)

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It’s hard not to be thinking about health care in our country right now. It is dominating the airwaves and cyberspace. It has prompted me to get out my own policy and try to figure out what my coverage is; I’m still figuring. The debate has certainly heated up conversationsRead More →

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As we approach this coming Labor Day we will remember in our prayers this Sunday all who labor. We will specifically pray for justice in the workplace, justice being an imperative both in Hebrew Scripture and in the Gospels. Worker justice in our country continues to be a serious issue.Read More →

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Katharine’s father will have been dead a year this coming September. We just spent a couple of days in Panama City going through some of his things. We passed on the back beach road Coram’s restaurant, a place where he would go each morning around five thirty a.m. for coffee.Read More →

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When we say church what have we said? In the New Testament literature the word for church is eklesia, which literally means “gathered assembly.” It comes from the ancient Greek that was used to describe the public assembly that governed the Polis, Plato’s vision of a city governing themselves inRead More →

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Several All Saintsers have asked me questions about this past Sunday’s sermon in which I mentioned the terms transubstantiation and consubstantiation. The former, an early medieval construct in Roman Catholicism, according to The Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms, means that the bread and wine in the Eucharist are “essentially changed”Read More →