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10/15/2025

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10/15/2025

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08/26/2025

Take a ride on the Rock Island Line. It's a great new podcast about local leaders that asked Robb to be a guest. It's a long episode, but it's worth checking out.

🎙️ In this episode of Rock Island Line, host Annika O’Melia sits down with Robb McCoy, pastor of Two Rivers United Methodist Church in Rock Island, co-host ...

08/22/2025

There's a new shirt design on our TeePublic page.

Beloved and Baptized, with a nod to most mainline Protestant baptismal vows, which include the power to resist evil and oppression.

04/09/2025

After 858 shows in 12 years, we are taking a break. Share a comment below for our temporary farewell episode.

01/25/2025

We pray for our clergy colleagues. God be with you as your proclaim the Good News. In Christ, Robb and Eric

(Image is blue background with the words: For the next two Sundays, the Revised Common Lectionary will have churches share a story of Jesus proclaiming a word of justice, grace, and inclusion. He is met with anger and violence. Perhaps beloved, you were called for such a time as this. We hold you in our prayers.)

11/07/2024

Rev. Dr. Dietra Wise was a classmate of Eric and Robb at Eden Theological Seminary. She is co-hosting this zoom event. I just found it, an hour late for the Thursday meeting, but there is still time for the Friday zoom call.
http://tinyurl.com/postelectionsermonprep

05/16/2024

There is still time to register your youth for AIR Camp. Little Grassy Camp is a beautiful place just south of Carbondale, Illinois. Youth in middle school through just graduated seniors are welcome to come to be a part of this welcoming, affirming, grace-filled youth camp. Pulpit Fiction host Robb McCoy is the featured speaker for the week. If you are looking for a youth ministry experience you can trust, check out AIR Camp and register at this link before June 1.
https://www.littlegrassycamp.org/summercamps

05/14/2024

Pentecost Sunday includes the famous story from Acts 2. Is it miracle of speaking or of hearing? In this day and age, we may need the latter more. Plus Jesus tells us about the coming advocate in John 16

John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b

05/07/2024

Welcome to the Pulpit Fiction Podcast, the lectionary podcast for preachers, seekers and Bible geeks. This is episode 592 for Sunday, May 12, 2024, 7th Sunday of Easter, year B.

1 John 5:9-13 Life in Christ with Voice in the Wilderness
John 17:6-19 In, but not of, the world
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Choosing a new Disciple

John 17:6-19 Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 1 John 5:9-13 Psalm 1

05/03/2024

Here is a story about the UMC General Conference with some insight from your “Marvelous Methodist.”

On Thursday, church leaders voted 523 to 161 to eliminate language saying "the practice of homosexuality … is incompatible with Christian teaching.”

05/01/2024

Today at the UMC General Conference, 50 years of discriminatory language has been lifted from the Book of Discipine.