An Invitation to Connect
I’d like to tell you about a way we have invited visitors to a first-of-the-year study and sermon series around faith, doubt, belief, and the...
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The Gracious Orthodoxy of United Methodism
This is the second in a series of articles on The United Methodist Church. As a new conservative Methodist denomination launches in May of this year,...
What I Value about United Methodism: Intellectual Evangelicalism
I became a follower of Christ in a small and loving Pentecostal congregation at the age of 14. Two years later I heard a call to vocational ministry...
A Response to Thomas Lambrecht
A response to Thomas Lambrecht’s article, “Primary Reasons for Separation” in the Good News newsletter, Perspective.
The United Methodist Church I Hope to Serve
My hope is that the next United Methodism removes the language and policies that exclude, harm, or alienate LGBTQ persons.
What's Next for the United Methodist Church?
In the seven weeks since General Conference nearly every committed United Methodist has been asking, What’s next for the UMC?
A New United Methodism?
One conclusion that has consensus among compatibilists and, I think, most incompatibilists: our Church is broken, and we cannot continue as we are.
A Way Backwards: Winning the Battle, Losing the Church
I believe the coalition that leaders of the WCA put together has won a battle at General Conference and may well have lost the church.
A Speech Against …
These last few days the United Methodist Church’s General Conference met in St. Louis, Missouri. Our church is, like the US, made up of...
The Bible Says It … That Settles It
Beginning Saturday, February 23, the United Methodist Church is holding a special called session of its General Conference, the official...
Living in the Tension: A Church of the Via Media
Methodism has often been described as a bridge-building faith that holds together, often in tension, what might seem to be opposing impulses.
Living the Good Life
Nobody says, “Give me the mediocre life. Give me the lousy life.” Everybody wants to experience the good life.