The M28 Difference
By Eddie and Allyson Willis -- On a July morning in the mountains at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, young people and their leaders from youth ministries around the Southeast have just finished breakfast and are gathered outside the entrances of Shackford Hall in the...
Analyzing Disaffiliating Churches
By Thomas Lambrecht -- A recent report by Lovett Weems of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership purports to examine the 2,000 or so churches that disaffiliated from The United Methodist Church by the end of 2022. The Weems report was supposedly intended to discover...
Kulah: Standing on the Promises of God
- By Dr. Jerry Kulah - My dear brothers and sisters of The United Methodist Church from all around the world, I humbly greet you in the strong name of Jesus Christ! We thank God for all who have participated in observing a sacred season of fasting and prayer as we...
Focus 2: Global inequity challenges United Methodism
By Steve Beard - The 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church is being simultaneously translated for delegates in French, German, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. The skilled bank of interpreters illustrate the unique international DNA...
Focus 2: Devotional – Power of the Holy Spirit
By Samuel Chadwick - The church still has a theology of the Holy Spirit but it has no living consciousness of His presence and power. No doctrine of the Christian faith has been so neglected. The blunders and disasters of the church are largely, if not entirely,...
Focus 2: What Makes a Successful General Conference?
By Elizabeth Glass Turner - How can we move toward a common goal successfully together? That endgame may mean significantly different things to various factions in St. Louis. The problem isn't that we can't work together. It's that we're working towards different...
Focus 1: Devotional – A prayer for hope
By Richard Allen (1760-1830) - O, my God, in all my dangers, temporal and spiritual, I will hope in thee who art Almighty power, and therefore able to relieve me; who art infinite goodness, and therefore ready and willing to assist me. O, precious blood of my dear...
Focus 1: Which Way Forward? Modified Traditional Plan
By Thomas Lambrecht “I look upon all the world as my parish,” famously said John Wesley. As we gather in St. Louis, The United Methodist Church – one aspect of Wesley’s spiritual legacy – is in ministry in 60 different nations around the globe. Within the last 20...
