Engaging an African Bishop
Engaging an African Bishop -- By Thomas Lambrecht -- A recent commentary by Bishop Mande Muyombo (North Katanga Area in the Congo Central Conference) sets forth his understanding of where things are and where things are headed for The United Methodist Church in...
Methodist Heritage Archive: Brother Stanley
Methodist Heritage: Brother Stanley -- By Edmund Robb III -- Good News Archive, July-August 1976 -- TIME magazine, Oct. 20, 1948: “A grand old man among U.S. missionaries is a rugged Methodist preacher named Eli Stanley Jones. Baltimore-born Missionary Jones went to...
Rethinking Church in Zimbabwe
By Pricilla Muzerengwa - Traditionally, United Methodists parade through the streets carrying palms on Palm Sunday. Communities would also typically see Christians marching in the early morning on Easter Sunday singing praises of victory. That’s all changed due to the...
Saved to the Uttermost
By Maxie Dunnam - To be a Christian is to change. It is to become new. It is not simply a matter of choosing a new lifestyle, although that will change. It has to do with being a new person. A new person does not emerge fully formed. Conversion – passing from death to...
Remapping Our Wesleyan Future
By Thomas Lambrecht - News that General Conference 2020 has been postponed until sometime in 2021 has thrown the denomination into a temporary limbo regarding a future amicable separation. Beyond question, this was the right decision. With the spreading coronavirus...
Wrestling with Budget After GC2020 Postponed
By Heather Hahn - The pandemic-forced postponement of General Conference has left United Methodist financial leaders with big questions about the denomination’s budget. The General Council on Finance and Administration board spent much of a March 27 teleconference...
Military Chaplains Deployed
By Sam Hodges - The skies were gray. The faithful had to wear masks and keep their distance. But Lt. Cmdr. Genevieve Clark, a United Methodist chaplain in the U.S. Navy, was still able to lead an Easter sunrise service on the flight deck of the USNS Mercy, a hospital...
Sheltered in Place
By Laurie Drum - As of this writing, I am in my third week of shelter in place in Spain, one of the deadliest of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Life and circumstances change by the hour nowadays. Such a paradox, to be sitting still and locked in our...
