All Things New
By Max S. Wilkins - “And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, ‘Today – at the latest, tomorrow – we’re off to such and such a city for the year. We’re going to start a business and make a lot of money.’ You don’t know the first thing about tomorrow. You’re...
Cotton Candy Christianity
By B.J. Funk - Have you ever been to the Church of Cotton Candy Christianity? Hopefully, there’s not one in your town, though they sometime show up in the best of neighborhoods. Cotton Candy Christianity is a belief that holds no substance and a whole lot of sugary...
Archive: Jet Landings
Archive: Jet Landings The inner city is filled with dead-ends and closed doors. Well, it used to be that way. by Boyce A. Bowdon Near the door to the Jets' room at Pennsylvania Avenue United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, there is a cardboard box about two feet...
Archive: The Devaluing of Evangelism
Archive: The Devaluing of Evangelism By Bishop Louis Schwengerdt March/April 1993 For 175 years, we the people called "Methodist" were enthusiastic and evangelistic. In the 1960s we stopped being both. A dramatic change took place. We became a different church. What...
Archive: The Priority of Evangelism
Archive: The Priority of Evangelism By John Ed Mathison Forget about all of those theoretical books on church growth. John Ed Mathison has seen Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, multiply from a 400-member congregation in 1970 to its...
Archive: The Touch of God
Archive: The Touch of God Hungering after the presence of God will bring the church back to Life. By Sandy S. Kirk "I felt like the dead sent to raise the dead," groaned John Wesley after fruitless attempts to convert the lost. Yet isn't this the cry of the United...
Archive: Interview with Thomas Oden
Archive: Interview with Thomas Oden What caused you to begin seriously re-thinking your theology? As a 40 year old scholar I was goaded, pestered and badgered into reading the ancient Christian writers by an incomparable, caring Jewish friend—Will Herberg. A central...
Archive: Back to the Future with Thomas C. Oden
Archive: Back to the Future with Thomas C. Oden This eminent UM theologian exchanged the faddish illusions of modernity for the richness and power of the ancient apostolic traditions. Thomas C. Oden teaches theology and ethics at the Theology School, Drew University....
