Can These Bones Live?
By Kimberly Constant -- Ezekiel stood, looking out across a valley filled with bones that stretched as far as he could see. Bones that were brittle. Bleached by the relentless sun and worn down by the ravages of time. Bones which represented the once proud nation of...
Bishop Mark Webb Joins Global Methodist Church
By Walter Fenton, Global Methodist Church - United Methodist Bishop Mark J. Webb, the former leader of the UM Church’s Upper New York Episcopal Area, has resigned from the episcopacy and withdrawn from the denomination. Webb has joined the Global Methodist...
Tribalizing Methodism
By Scott Kisker - With the 2019 called General Conference looming, it is time to address the risks posed to our United Methodist polity as a peculiar articulation and preserver of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. The United Methodist Church is set up as...
The Power of a Transformed Life
By Steve Beard - If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here." -- Saint Paul (II Corinthian 5:17). An essential element of the magnetism of the Christian message is the opportunity for a second chance, a clean slate. When we...
Northwest United Methodist Defiance
By Thomas Lambrecht - United Methodists in the Greater Northwest Area, under the leadership of Bishop Elaine J.W. Stanovsky, have again decided to disregard the letter and spirit of United Methodist Church teachings. Indeed, it seems Stanovsky has gone out of her way...
Commentary: Now Is the Moment to Debunk the Evangelical Takeover Myth
By Elizabeth Glass Turner - “What we are facing is a classic Evangelical Takeover. We are the Southern Baptist Church, 30 years later. Those behind the Evangelical takeover are well funded, well-organized, and have no interest in taking prisoners.” Those who raise an...
Why the “local option” is not the answer
By Rob Renfroe - Recently a progressive United Methodist pastor said to me, “I don’t understand why you can’t accept the local option. It lets pastors who want to marry gay couples do so. But it doesn’t compel people like you to perform such ceremonies. It allows...
Respect or Contempt
By Rob Renfroe - Soon we will know which plan or plans the United Methodist Council of Bishops will recommend to the extraordinary General Conference in St. Louis. In just a matter of months we will learn how the Council proposes to resolve our denomination’s...
