The Watchful Eyes of Angels
“Give your angels charge over those who sleep.” – The Book of Common Prayer. By Tish Harrison Warren For close to 15 years, I forgot about the existence of angels. I didn’t exactly decide I no longer believed in them. I simply didn’t think about them, and if I ever...
When Words Won’t Come
By B.J. Funk In the fifth grade, my best friend was Susan. We were inseparable. On weekends we played at either her house or mine. Her mother made us matching outfits, and we each pulled our long same-color hair back into a pony tail. We loved being together. We loved...
Large, Fast Growing UM Church Decides to Withhold Apportionments
By Walter Fenton- Evangelical United Methodist Church (EUMC), one of the denomination's fastest growing large churches, has decided to withhold paying its annual conference and general church apportionments. The Greenville, Ohio, congregation reached its decision in...
Bishops Void “Non-Conformity” Resolutions
By Thomas Lambrecht When the New England Annual Conference passed a resolution at its recent gathering in defiance of the standards of the global United Methodist Church regarding ordination and homosexuality, a "question of law" was immediately requested. When an...
Complaint Dismissed Against Openly Gay Clergywoman in Iowa
By Walter Fenton- Bishop Julius Trimble has dismissed a complaint filed against a United Methodist clergywoman who announced during a plenary session of the 2016 Iowa Annual Conference, "I am a self-avowed practicing homosexual. Or in my language, I am out, queer,...
Jerry Kulah to Address at WCA Chicago Gathering
The Rev. Jerry Kulah, West Africa Central Conference Coordinator of the UMC Africa Initiative and the dean of the Gbarnga School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Liberia, is set to speak at the WCA launch event Friday, October 7. Jerry is an ordained United...
Jessica LaGrone’s Invitation to the Wesleyan Covenant Association
"During this time of uncertainty and chaos in our church the Wesleyan Covenant Association is a fresh voice of hope,” says the Rev. Jessica LaGrone, Dean of the Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. In her invitation to United Methodists to join...
Faithfully Forward
By Rob Renfroe- If the Western Jurisdiction wanted to create a schism within The United Methodist Church, its delegates could not have devised a better plan than their recent election of the Rev. Karen Oliveto to serve as a bishop of the UM Church. As is widely...
