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The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell is senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC.
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The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell is senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC.
Dr. Howell became Senior Pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in 2003, and is adjunct professor of preaching at Duke Divinity School.
In 1984 he earned a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Duke, studying under Fr. Roland E. Murphy. He was the 2003 Jameson Jones Distinguished Lecturer in Preaching at Duke.
His publications include twelve books, including Yours are the Hands of Christ, The Beautiful Work of Learning to Pray, The Life We Claim, and The Beatitudes for Today. His most recent books are Conversations with St. Francis and The Will of God. He is the author of the denominational devotional resource, The Sanctuary for Lent, in 2007 and 2008. He is a regular contributor to many publications, including The Christian Century.
James leads many workshops on preaching, Bible, theology, ethics, and ministry for clergy and laity at the local, conference and national levels. He preached on The Protestant Hour and won the F. Parker Duncan Church Public Relations Award of Excellence (1997). James was honored with the Francis Asbury Award (1999) for his work mentoring college and seminary students. Twice he has received the Award of Excellence in Christian writing for columns in The Christian Century.
He has been elected a delegate to Southeastern Jurisdictional Conferences, General Conference, and the World Methodist Councils, and is active on many boards and agencies.
James is married to Lisa, who is a social worker for WISH, a community and church-based housing program; and they have three children.
Latest Content by The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell
Is the Lord Among Us Or Not?
Exodus 17:1-7
15th Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
September 25, 2011
The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell (UMC)The Bible provides us with an extraordinary collection of psychological case studies--just in Exodus 17! The Lord delivers, then leads the people through a parched, perilous zone. So what does verse 2 tell us? "Therefore--therefore!--the people found fault with--not God, but Moses!" What's the term for that? Transfer? Scapegoating? That awful habit of pointing our blame at the wrong person that plagues relationships and sours religious life--although often we do the Israelite blame game in reverse: some minister misbehaves, abuses trust, or some church member acts atrociously, and people find fault with God and choose to disbelieve.
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Small and White, Clean and Bright
Exodus 16:2-15
14th Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
September 18, 2011
The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell (UMC)Seems like yesterday I was sitting in my undergraduate religion class--professor seemed to be taking perverse delight in debunking doggedly held truths learned in Sunday School. My fellow students from the Bible Belt were trembling with discomfort, a few near the edge of apologetic rage. Not only had he denied Moses credit for writing Genesis and Exodus, not only had he pointed to older Ancient Near Eastern creation stories, not only had he nixed the Cecil B. DeMille image of giant walls of water through which Israel, led by Charlton Heston, fled Egypt. Now he was explaining away the miracle of the manna. Evidently you can obtain manna souvenirs in the Sinai: insects suck off honey-like deposits of the tamarisk, deposit the surplus on branches--the residue just loaded with carbohydrates and sugars crystallizes and falls--ants eventually eat the stuff as the day grows hot.
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