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Connections |
A monthly letter calling the church to faithful new life
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Connections is a 4-page
monthly letter written and published by
Barbara Wendland,
a United Methodist laywoman.
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Barbara is urging church members
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to minister to the world, not just to each other
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to focus on today and tomorrow, not on yesterday
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to worship God, not their personal comfort, the Bible's words, or
the institutional church
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to keep reevaluating their religious beliefs, their churches' faithfulness to God's call, and their churches' effectiveness in carrying out the church's God-given purpose
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to talk openly with each other about how to help their churches become more faithful and effective.
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To read or download the current issue or back issues of Connections,
click here.
Feel like a misfit in the church, as a thinking,
questioning person? Are you "spiritually homeless"? You're not alone! See these issues of Connections—Feb.
2002, April 2002, June
2002, Aug. 2005, Sept.
2005, Dec. 2005, Oct.
2006, and Jan. 2008.
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Barbara mails Connections monthly
by U.S. mail and e-mail, to several thousand Christian laity
and clergy and some non-churchgoers. These Connections readers are in all 50 U.S. states and D.C.
and Puerto Rico, and in several other countries. They include members of more than a
dozen church denominations.
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She's saying what many other laity and many clergy would like to say.
In Connections Barbara takes on one sacred cow after another.
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She's neither a church employee nor a clergy spouse, so she's free to say
openly what they usually aren't.
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She has a theology degree, years of personal reading and study about
religion and the church, and wide involvement in the church, helping her to see
and say what many lay church members can't.
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She says it clearly in conversational language.
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Lay and ordained Connections readers say
"Connections is inspiring, positive, challenging, insightful, informative,
clear, concise, useful, fresh, and easy to read."
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