Hello! My name is the Rev. Dr. John Henry Bell, Jr.
I live in the Washington Park area of Denver, Colorado, with my wife, Margaret, and two beloved Rottweilers, who were adopted from the Denver Dumb Friends League.
I have been in ministry in the Presbyterian Church USA for over 25 years, and I have served as senior pastor of the Wellshire Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colorado, which is a large, lively, hopeful and spirited congregation, for the past 11 years. I am a theologian, a student of life, a citizen of the world and an avid sportsman, and I appreciate ”all things bright and beautiful.” I learn from books — but I really learn from the people that I meet.
I enjoy running, skiing, the Colorado Rockies, reading and riding my new scooter
I currently am on a blessed Sabbatical leave until September!
I have two daughters: Megan, who recently moved back to Denver, works as an assistant manager at Nordstrom in Cherry Creek and plans to go to graduate school someday; and Katie who is a junior English major at Lees-McRae College (PCUSA) in Banner Elk, North Carolina.
You can contact me at: jhbelljr@gmail.com.
Our irritated Christo/liberal consciences are soothed by the prospect of “basic health care coverage for all.” Yet if we are honest, we must admit that we may be willing to settle for a level of care for others that we would never accept for ourselves or our families (perhaps on the quetionable premise that something is better than nothing?)
Poor people’s clinics are usually pretty grim places (no Mayo they!). Sure there are some shining exceptions to the rule, and yes we’d hope that new legislation would incentivize the exception rather than the rule, and of course just because the standard of care may be shaky is not enough reason not to enact a law to provide care for sick people.
But at the same time, let’s be enough in touch with our fallen selves (sorry, that’s my theology) and sufficiently humble to be troubled by, and even embrace, the ambivalence and the nuance.
GREAT START, JOHN! KEEP IT COMING …
By: Jim Kitchen on October 17, 2009
at 10:12 am
Great quote in your header! Blessings,
Eden
Thorns and Myrtles
http://edenellis.wordpress.com
By: Eden on May 8, 2010
at 1:51 pm