The Case for a Virtual General Conference, Part 1
By Thomas Lambrecht - There is much anxiety about whether and how a General Conference will meet in 2021. General Conference was originally scheduled for May 2020, but was postponed to August 29 through September 7, 2021, due to pandemic travel and meeting...
Primary Reasons for Separation
By Thomas Lambrecht - As we approach a possible separation in The United Methodist Church this year, one of the important questions to answer is, “Why should we separate?” There are many reasons for the conflict in our church that have led us to this point. Rob...
Archive: New Oden book causes stir
Archive: New Oden book causes stir By the time it was released in late January, a book by self-described "orthodox evangelical" Thomas C. Oden had prompted widespread criticism across the church and a defense by executives of Abingdon, the book publishing arm of the...
Archive: C.S. Lewis on Holiness
Archive: C.S. Lewis on Holiness By Jerry L. Walls It would be hard to overestimate the impact that C.S. Lewis has had on the Christian world through his popular apologetic writings. Consider the great ministry of Chuck Colson and the fact that his reading of Lewis was...
Archive: Reaching Generation X for Christ
Archive: Reaching Generation X for Christ By James H. Steele In what has become almost a wintertime ritual, United Methodist teens and counselors descend each January on Gatlinburg, a tourist town nestled in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. The omnipresent...
Archive: Trial By Fire In Havana
Archive: Trial By Fire In Havana By J. Lee Grady In the darker days of Fidel Castro's regime, many Cubans were afraid to set foot in a church. Christians did not fit into Castro's plan for a communist utopia, so his government severely restricted religious activities...
Archive: Hosannas in Havana
Archive: Hosannas in Havana By Thomas C. Oden My first Sunday evening in Cuba took me to an Afro-Caribbean Methodist church on the outskirts of Havana. An exuberant charismatic revival was clearly in progress. The church was crammed full; no seats anywhere. People of...
Archive: What is Biblical Revival?
Archive: What is Biblical Revival? By Peter H. Davids Christians today are praying for revival, books are being written about it, and crowds gather at revival conferences. But what does revival look like in the Bible? John White defines revival as "an action of God...
