Cost of Following Christ
By Jenifer Jones It is estimated that more than 360 million Christians around the world live in places where they experience high levels of persecution and discrimination. TMS Global cross-cultural witnesses (CCWs) serve in some of these places. Two CCWs who live in...
A Momentous Year
By Thomas Lambrecht It is hard to wrap our minds around how things have changed in The United Methodist Church over the past year. Last January, we were looking forward to a General Conference meeting in August 2022. The Protocol of Grace and Reconciliation through...
Suffering for the Sake of Christ
By Courtney Lott - Hannah Cho grew up in North Korea, a country where Christians suffer the widest extent of persecution in the world. Along with her husband, Cho was mercilessly tortured for her faith in internment camps. “My mother only taught me one prayer,” she...
Liberty’s Hero: Frederick Douglass
Liberty's Hero: Frederick Douglass By Steve Beard - Frederick Douglass grew up under the perverse shackles of slavery on a plantation in Maryland 200 years ago. He never knew the identity of his father, barely saw his mother, and witnessed unspeakable violence and...
The Future to the Present
By Stephen A. Seamands - “Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” — N.T. Wright It makes all the difference in the world whether someone is dead or alive. That’s why, according to New Testament...
Exploring Possible Futures
By Heather Hahn - The Commission on a Way Forward is fleshing out the details of three possible models for how the denomination treats LGBTQ inclusion. The multinational group, appointed by United Methodist bishops, held its seventh meeting behind closed doors January...
Expecting More of God
By David F. Watson - “Okay,” I thought. “I can do this.” A crying woman and her young son stood in front of me. With my limited Spanish, I could make out that she had pain in her head, neck, and chest. He had a problem with his throat. They had come for healing...
“Turnaround” Story for Small Churches
By Kathy L. Gilbert - The tale begins with suicide, mixes in a few miracles, but has no ending because one woman and two small United Methodist churches believe faith can’t be measured by the number of people planted in the pews. Can You Just Get Them Through Until...
