Disaffiliation Ends
Disaffiliation Ends By Heather Hahn July/August 2024 The United Methodist Church’s focus on disaffiliation has come to an end and a new push for regionalization is just beginning. By a vote of 516 to 203, General Conference delegates supported the end of a...
Ukranian Delegate Glad to be United Methodist
Ukranian Delegate Glad to be United Methodist By Sam Hodges The Rev. Yulia Starodubets came to the United Methodist General Conference from Ukraine, which is more than two years into a grinding war with Russia. Because commercial air travel in her country remains...
Original Sin in Methodism
Original Sin in Methodism - By Paul Stallsworth - Since congregations and clergy began disaffiliating from The United Methodist Church, those remaining United Methodist have been defensively repeating this mantra: “Our doctrinal standards have not changed and will...
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates - By Kudzai Chingwe - HARARE, Zimbabwe (UM News) Editor’s note: For security purposes, only the first names of incarcerated individuals have been used. In an effort to share God’s love with those in need, The United Methodist...
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid - By Elizabeth Glass Turner - Have you ever bought and donated Christmas presents for kids through an Angel Tree project or local congregational initiative? If so, let me say Thank You for all the kids opening Lego sets, Frozen...
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials - By David F, Watson - “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.” Christians have recited this maxim at least since the seventeenth century. There is real wisdom here. It does, however, compel us to...
Following the Lead of the Healer
Following the Lead of the Healer - By Stephen Seamands - Healing played an essential part in Jesus’s three-year earthly ministry. In fact, along with teaching and preaching, it was one of his three major activities. The Gospel of Matthew sums up Jesus’s ministry in...
With Faith, Pondering Death
With Faith, Pondering Death - By Terry Mattingly - There was nothing unusual, in the early 1970s, about a student hearing one of his professors preach during chapel. But one sermon – “How Would You Like to Die?” – impressed the seminarian who would later become...
