Love Big, Be Well is Winn Collier’s fictional account of rural ministry. Here he puts the question a country church puts to prospective pastors. Do they love a program, or people? At its best the answer is not either/or. Love for pastoring people is the engine, though. We’d like to know if you’re going to …
Winn Collier writes about the beatitudes as encouragements for those at the margins rather than a recipe of ‘be this and get that’. Why? To assure us that in the kingdom, we should never be undone by finding ourselves at the margins. From the post: The life Jesus announces really does turn everything topsy-turvy. Jesus …
I’m discovering the writings of Winn Collier. Here he examines the trope ‘I’m spiritual, but not religious’ and points out that while the idea has some attractions, ultimately its just too thin to sustain a soul. An excerpt: Abstract ideals don’t have the grit I know is required to save me. Rather, it is Jesus’ …
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