Dust on the Emmaus Road
Dust on the Emmaus Road By B.J. Funk – Two followers of Jesus are walking from Jerusalem on the road to Emmaus, engrossed in conversation (Luke 24). Jesus has been resurrected just this morning. He walks up behind them and initiates the conversation. “What are you...
The Hope of Reconciliation
The Hope of Reconciliation TMS Global Interview featuring Bishop Eduard Khegay – February 24th marked the one-year anniversary of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Bishop Eduard Khegay is the resident bishop of the Eurasia Episcopal Area in the Northern Europe and...
A Primer on Local Church Assets
By David W. Scott - As I have tried to explain in a series of articles found on UM & Global (umglobal.org), The United Methodist Church as a whole is not a legal entity capable of owning property or financial assets. Local church property (real or personal,...
Rebooting for Ministry
By Sarah Parham - I have shared the deepest honor in walking with people as they discern their call into next steps of following the Lord for many years now, first in campus ministry, and now in missions mobilization. As Christian believers, our first and only...
Squirming Through Prayer
By B.J. Funk - I always read John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer with a questioning heart, particularly over one section. Though challenging, to say the least, most of the prayer I get. There’s just this one part that bothers me. The part that makes me want to completely...
Broad Traditionalist Group Casts Vision for Future Denomination
By Thomas Lambrecht - A group of nearly 30 diverse United Methodist bishops, clergy, and laity -men and women, African-American, Asian, Caribbean, Caucasian, and Hispanic persons from every U.S. jurisdiction, and three central conferences -recently concluded a...
8 bishops join in planning new denomination
By Heather Hahn, UMNS A group of United Methodist leaders, including eight bishops, has issued a statement sharing its vision for a global traditionalist denomination focused on evangelism and the “primacy of Scripture.” Among the group’s essential doctrinal beliefs...
Breaking News: New Methodist Wesleyan Movement Announced
God calls us to embrace a new day as the people called Methodists. Established in the faith entrusted to us by our forbearers, we discern the Holy Spirit reviving the Methodist movement in a new work. We are committed to God’s vision given to our predecessors “to...
