Dogma, Doctrine, and Adiaphora: How do you know, or determine, theologically, what is written in blood, ink, and pencil?

Keith Drury has likened the categories of dogma, doctrine, and adiaphora to issues of blood, ink, and pencil, respectively. For me, such a distinction has always been helpful. The issues of dogma are the issues/things for which I would give my life, or at the very least, be willing to get beat up and batters …

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September 22, 2009 – 2:14 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General, Theology | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

The Nines

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September 9, 2009 – 4:37 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General, Leadership | Tagged | View Comments

mission | trajectory | future: why what we measure matters

The Wesleyan Church, the denomination of which I am a part, is hosting a series of ‘Pastors Forum(s)’ in the coming months. The purpose of these meetings/forums/discussions is: to gather knowledge from the grassroots on what needs to be revived, refined, reinvented, and/or restructured in order for North American Wesleyans to achieve our vision of …

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September 8, 2009 – 3:00 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | View Comments

What we owe the future is not a new start, for we can only begin with what has happened.  We owe the future the past, the long knowledge that is the potency of time to come.         ~Wendell Berry Posted via web from joshrhone’s posterous

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September 8, 2009 – 12:35 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General | View Comments