The article that captured my attention was a story about running off your pastor, something that we in the Methodist church are all too familiar with either by first or second hand experience. It's pretty easy to do in this denomination because the politics of the Methodist church promote moving pastors anyway. Rather than a pastor growing a church where he is planted, they are typically used as fertilizer for their own careers. If you think of it in terms of stepping stones, our little church would be one of the lower stones on the climb up to......to.......I don't know what they're climbing to or for? It is one of the sadder aspects of the Methodists. Anytime politics are this intertwined with faith, there will be a conflict of interest. I'm really not dissing the pastors for their climb; ambition is valuable and natural I suppose. It's just an unfortunate aspect of this religion I've chosen to worship God within. Luckily for me, it is God that I worship and it is Him that I put my faith in, not my religion nor my pastor.
Another interesting article while skimming through my new resource was the movie review page. Because watching movies is one of my favorite past times, this grabbed my attention. The Hunger Games is reviewed here and I agree very strongly with his take on it.
For those of us who still see the value of hymns, there is a plethora of information for you as well. This one, I must share with our pastor, you know the one that I'm hoping will not be leaving us next week as our denomination plays their version of chess with our pastors.
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