Who is Ken Collins?
I am an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), which is a member denomination of the Churches Uniting in Christ and Christian Churches Together in the USA. I am the pastor of Garfield Memorial Christian Church in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. I’m also in the Disciples of Christ search-and-call process, looking to pastor a church somewhere in the US or Canada. (My congregation is aware of this.)
You can read about my ordination process.
I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, which was the home of George Washington, the first president of the United States, and of George Mason, the author of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Since then, we haven’t done much, but I’m not going to apologize. We’re not lazy, we’re just stuck in rush-hour traffic. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and my Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.
Do not allow my persuasive writing style to overcome your skepticism: weigh my words, check my facts, and accept only what passes muster. Don’t agree with me without first putting me to the test, which is your duty according to 1 John 4:1-3.
I affirm that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and that we are saved in order to serve (Ephesians 2:8-10). I affirm the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, and Jesus’ lordship over all things. I look forward to the resurrection on the last day.
In my web site, I attempt to represent the Universal Church rather than my denomination. Accordingly, the material that you find on this web site is ecumenically broad and historically deep. I have tried my best to make sure that the material is well-researched, accurate, compelling, and accessible to everyone. Nevertheless, if you believe you have found a mistake, please let me know right away.
Please feel free to correspond with me; I’ll give you the best response I can as promptly as possible.
Serving you since 1995!
Ken Collins’ Web Site was born on 5 December 1995, and it received its domain name (www.KenCollins.com) on 10 September 1996.
Ken Collins’ Web Site contains over 940 files. If you want to print them all out, you'll need about four reams of paper. When I update my web site, not all updates consist of new articles. Quite often I revise the articles that I have already posted, to correct errors and typos, to expand upon unclear points, to include more details, or just to make the text more readable.
Ken Collins’ Web Site is designed to look and work the same in any twenty-first century version of any browser, such as Camino, Chrome, Firefox, Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera, or Safari. I recommend that you use one of those and keep it updated. Internet Explorer works okay, but not as well as other browsers. Web standards are constantly changing to make your experience richer and better and to make it easier on web developers. Things that were impossible on the web before the turn of the century are now commonplace. This is why you need to keep your browser up to date. Browsers are free, updates are easy; please, just do the right thing.
Hey, the page is all messed up!
This is a new phenomenon on the web. Programmers are in a race to see who can make the fastest browser. As a result, sometimes a browser tries to display a page before it has all the information, and that makes a mess. To fix it, just refresh the page. On Windows, press CONTROL+R. On the Mac, press COMMAND+R. That should tidy it right up.