Some Thoughts

Craig L. Adams
This is a collection of articles, thoughts, reflections and rants on various topics related to life, faith and whatever I want to talk about. You can comment on these if you’d like. (And, if I like.)
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Some Sites & Blogs that are worth a look:
A Peculiar Prophet (Bishop William H. Willimon)
Accountable Discipleship (Steven Manskar)
Allan R. Bevere
Ancient Hebrew Poetry (John Hobbins)
Asbury Seedbed
Ben Witherington on Bible and Culture
Black, White and Gray (Sociology & Christianity)
Carl McColman
Cheese-Wearing Theology (Amanda MacInnis)
Christus Victor Ministries blog (Greg Boyd)
Covered in the Master's Dust (Ben Gosden)
Covenant of Love (Derek Ouellette)
Crumbs from the Communion Table (Justin Lee)
Dr. Platypus (Darrell Pursiful)
Euangelion (Michael Bird & Joel Willitts)
Everyday Theology (Marc Cortez)
Faith Improvised (Tim Gombis)
For the Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love (Thomas Jay Oord)
Gentle Wisdom (Peter Kirk)
Gloria Deo: Wesleyan-glican Ramblings (Daniel McLain Hixon)
God’s Politics (Jim Wallis & friends)
Holloway Rev (Paul Weary)
Incarnatio (Matt O'Reilly)
Inhabitatio Dei (Halden Doerge)
Internet Monk
(Ir)regular Christian (Casey Taylor)
James-Michael Smith
James Pedlar
Jeff K. Clarke
Jonathan Martin
Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight)
John Meunier’s Blog
Lisa Colón DeLay
Lakeside Reflections (Mark Payne)
Mercy, not Sacrifice (Morgan Guyton)
MethoBlog
McIlweb (Keith McIlwain)
Ministry Matters
Nijay K. Gupta
Notes from a Small Place (Jake Meador)
Oboedire (Steve Harper)
Of Dust and Kings (T. E. Hanna)
of Paper, Pints and Tweed (Mason Slater)
Pam BG's Blog (Pam Garrud)
Participatory Bible Study Blog (Henry E. Neufield)
Peter Enns
Pisteuomen (T. Michael W. Halcomb)
Professor Obvious (Jason A. Staples)
Purging my soul…one blog at a time (Sam Nunnally)
Quadrilateral Thoughts (Ken Schenck)
Rankin File (Steve Rankin)
Rachel Held Evans
Randal Rauser
Real Meal Ministries (Brian D. Russell)
Reasonable Faith (William Lane Craig)
Reformed and Always Reforming (Randy Boswell)
Reformedish (Derek Rishmawy)
Roger E. Olson
The Ivy Bush (Jonathan Marlowe)
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars (Brian MacArevey)
Society of Evangelical Arminians
Storied Theology (J. R. Daniel Kirk)
Steele's Answers
Teddy Ray: Theology, Ministry and Life with God
the episcopalian (William Birch)
The New Methofesto (Wes Magruder)
The Pangea Blog (Kurt Willems)
The Plow Boy (Lawrence Garcia)
The Search for Integrity (Bob Buehler)
The Unfiltered Wesleyan (Matthew Johnson)
Threads from Henry’s Web (Henry E. Neufeld)
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Theological Graffitti (T. C. Moore)
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Unsettled Christianity (Joel E. Watts)
United Methodeviations (Dan R. Dick)
United Methodist Insight (Cynthia B. Astle)
Vital Piety (Kevin Watson)
Walking in the Wilderness (Pat Schwebes Dunbar)
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Wesleyan Leadership (Steven Manskar)
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Christian Perfection (12)
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Colossians (1)
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Holiness (3)
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Internet Links (34)
Jazz (3)
John Wesley (35)
Methodism (10)
Personal (17)
Prayer (18)
Preaching (2)
Psalms (28)
Quotations (55)
Reconciliation (1)
Sexuality Issues (19)
Site Update (7)
The Church Year (5)
The Life of Faith (1)
The United Methodist Church (5)
Theology (38)
Wesleyan Theology (45)
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A quotation from the Preface to a book on the theology of the Old Testament.
A Post-Election Day Prayer from Walter Brueggemann.
A brief quotation from Walter Brueggemann.