Of Borrowed Lawnmowers and United Methodist Clergy Status
Of Borrowed Lawnmowers and United Methodist Clergy Status By Bob Phillips – A man went to his neighbor’s house and asked to borrow his lawnmower. The neighbor said no. The man politely asked why, since it was sitting unused in the garage. The neighbor replied, “Well,...
Dust on the Emmaus Road
Dust on the Emmaus Road By B.J. Funk – Two followers of Jesus are walking from Jerusalem on the road to Emmaus, engrossed in conversation (Luke 24). Jesus has been resurrected just this morning. He walks up behind them and initiates the conversation. “What are you...
Broad Traditionalist Group Casts Vision for Future Denomination
By Thomas Lambrecht - A group of nearly 30 diverse United Methodist bishops, clergy, and laity -men and women, African-American, Asian, Caribbean, Caucasian, and Hispanic persons from every U.S. jurisdiction, and three central conferences -recently concluded a...
8 bishops join in planning new denomination
By Heather Hahn, UMNS A group of United Methodist leaders, including eight bishops, has issued a statement sharing its vision for a global traditionalist denomination focused on evangelism and the “primacy of Scripture.” Among the group’s essential doctrinal beliefs...
Breaking News: New Methodist Wesleyan Movement Announced
God calls us to embrace a new day as the people called Methodists. Established in the faith entrusted to us by our forbearers, we discern the Holy Spirit reviving the Methodist movement in a new work. We are committed to God’s vision given to our predecessors “to...
Is Structural Unity Mandatory for the Church?
By Thomas Lambrecht - In a recent blog, Bishop Gary Mueller makes the case for yet another plan to resolve the conflict in The United Methodist Church. His "2 X 4 Plan" calls for two regional conferences in each part of the globe -- Africa, Europe, the Philippines,...
Guest Commentary: Why Progressives and Traditionalists should Support the Protocol
Jack Jackson is E. Stanley Jones Associate Professor of Evangelism, Mission, and Global Methodism at Claremont School of Theology in California. Some of the opinions expressed in this analysis will be provocative to both progressive and traditionalist readers....
UMC Africa Initiative supports Separation Protocol
Press Release from Africa Initiative February 27, 2020 Clergy and lay leaders from the three Central Conferences of Africa, representing the UMC Africa Initiative from thirteen annual conferences, gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 24th to 27th February 2020...
