What Is a Traditional Methodist?
By Thomas Lambrecht - Traditionalist United Methodists have wrestled for several years with the question of what to call ourselves and what label to use. The need for a label became acute in 2016 when the General Conference authorized a commission to look at possible...
What Is Truth?
By Thomas Lambrecht - "What is truth?" Pontius Pilate asked that compelling question during his interrogation of Jesus prior to condemning him to the cross (John 18:38). For Pilate, that question was a cry of despair -- he had given up on ever finding the answer. It...
Archive: First New World Missioner front Cuba
Archive: First New World Missioner front Cuba by Cheryl A. Capshaw For the first time since a New World Mission program was initiated by the United Methodist Board of Discipleship in 1975, a Cuban pastor is participating. The Rev. Rinaldo Hernandez, Havana, is among...
Archive: After the Storm in Los Angeles
Archive: After the Storm in Los Angeles While delegates to the General Conference passionately discussed the causes, effects and aftermath of the verdict of the Rodney King case, United Methodists in southern California were ministering to the needs of riot-torn Los...
Archive: Leaders Discuss Evangelism
Archive: Leaders Discuss Evangelism by M. Garlinda Burton Prominent United Methodist scholars and some of the church's most provocative pastors began building bridges among academia, church bureaucracy and grass-roots parishes during an international symposium held in...
Archive: The NCC and the New World Order
Archive: The NCC and the New World Order by Alan Wisdom The long-troubled National Council of Churches (NCC) has a new general secretary who speaks of change. The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell has said that she is "very concerned about the ineffectiveness of our public...
Archive: Yeas and Nays
General Conference Afterthoughts Archive: Yeas and Nays General Conference is eleven days of highs and lows, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. It is the quadrennial showing of the good, the bad and the ugly within United Methodism. We arrive in unity with...
Archive: Declaration Signed
Archive: Declaration Signed An ad hoc group of United Methodists has issued a call to the denomination's highest governing body for actions ranging from renewed emphasis on evangelism and affirmation of the church's stance against ordaining homosexuals, to reducing...
