Traditionalist Apprehension about a Post-Separation UMC
By Thomas Lambrecht - Last week, I reported that the Western Jurisdiction was beginning a yearlong campaign to prepare for General Conference and the ensuing separation provided by the “Protocol for Reconciliation and Grace through Separation.” This very appropriate...
Western Jurisdiction Prepares for Separation
By Thomas Lambrecht - Last week, the Western Jurisdiction announced that it “is beginning preparations for the next General Conference by recommitting itself to be a faithful, inviting, open, safe and loving place for all people.” Its nearly year-long campaign, called...
Archive: UM Charismatics Flourish
Archive: UM Charismatics Flourish With spirited music, enthusiastic singing and uplifted hands, more than 1,700 charismatic United Methodists gathered in Oklahoma City for the Aldersgate '92 conference on the Holy Spirit. The mid-August meeting is sponsored by the...
Archive: The Cry of China
Archive: The Cry of China Carroll F. Hunt investigates the House Church movement in China The taxi driver found the place without difficulty; having Cantonese-speaking people along took care of that. We clambered out of the car and stared about us at the ordinary...
Archive: Ruby’s Listening Post
Archive: Ruby’s Listening Post By Boyce A. Bowdon What you can learn from a woman who listens to God Ruby Galloway Farish stepped to the podium at the 1992 General Conference of the United Methodist Church and glanced at the audience assembled there in the auditorium...
Archive: Waiting on God
Archive: Waiting on God By Margaret Therkelsen I have made a wonderful, new discovery in my prayer life. It is best defined by one of the many injunctions given in the Bible, "Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. For...
Archive: Our Glorious Salvation
Archive: Our Glorious Salvation Restoring the Main Mast of a Storm-tossed Church By Sandy Kirk Black waves pummeled the ship, lifting her high, then plunging her into watery valleys. The storm mounted, the winds roared, the main mast split, and the vessel rocked and...
Archive: Mission Impossible
Archive: Mission Impossible Is Teenage Discipleship an Oxymoron? By Duffy Robbins Mention youth ministry among the average group of pastors or church members and watch how the room comes alive—all of the excitement and expectancy of an appointment for oral surgery....
