ORCHISTERIA: The Fear Behind Cycles of Injustice

My family recently drove from Texas to Georgia, stopping at Methodist sites in Savannah and St. Simon’s Island where John and Charles Wesley once ministered. Coastal Georgia is steeped in colonial history, a world the Wesleys helped shape. What struck me most on this journey was the uniquely Southern contrast: breathtaking natural and architectural beauty […]

The Via Dolorosa

Among the many duties of the pastoral vocation, accompaniment is among the most sacred.  Last Tuesday, I joined a faithful member of my Sunday School class as he fulfilled his civic duty to appear before an immigration judge at the federal courthouse on Dolorosa Street in San Antonio, Texas.    Declared dead by the dictatorship of Venezuela, […]

CHAT-GPT ANALYSIS OF THE DISCIPLINE

Large Language Models of Artificial Intelligence have proven to be exceptionally efficient at analyzing relationships within literary texts, structures, and systems, editing documents, and providing recommendations for improvements. With the new 2020/2024 Book of Discipline now available in PDF format, I wondered what the popular CHATGPT online application would produce if asked for a systemic […]