Making A New Disciple
By Phillip C. Thrailkill -- It’s a romantic ballad from 1970, but John Denver’s “Follow Me” has a chorus that echoes many of the themes of being a disciple: “Follow me where I go, what I do, who I know/ Make it part of you to be a part of me/ Follow me up and down/...
When Women are Called by God
By Carolyn Moore -- I’m beginning to think it was a sign from God. Maybe that’s because it was in fact a sign. It was standing in front of The Holy House of Prayer of Jesus Christ, a little building with burglar bars on the windows situated deep in the heart of one of...
Hymn Swinger
By Steve Beard - The holy-rolling and guitar-swinging hymn singer who arguably gave birth to rock and roll and was buried in an unmarked grave for more than 35 years is finally getting the respect she deserves. For the fans of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), the...
Into the Arms of Eternity: Remembering Billy Graham
Into the Arms of Eternity: Remembering Billy Graham By Steve Beard - Wherever he landed around the globe, Billy Graham spent his life preaching a simple and sincere message of God’s love for all people, the urgent need for conversion, and the assurance that Jesus...
Tribalizing Methodism
By Scott Kisker - With the 2019 called General Conference looming, it is time to address the risks posed to our United Methodist polity as a peculiar articulation and preserver of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. The United Methodist Church is set up as a...
A Second Rise of Methodism
By William Payne - As The United Methodist Church prepares to meet in St. Louis next year for the special-called General Conference to decide its future, now is a good time to take a sober assessment of the state of our current denomination. • Over the last...
Turning the Page
God Outwitted Me: The Stories of My Life by Maxie Dunnam (Seedbed). Hopefully you’ve already read one of Dunnam’s many books or heard him preach. God Outwitted Me is his spiritual memoir about the events that molded and strengthened him to be the prized and beloved...
Mapping Out the Valley of the Shadow of Death
By Elizabeth Glass Turner - Laughing hard enough to shake dust from the rafters while reading a book about death feels a little sacrilegious, like stifling giggles at a funeral. It doesn’t seem proper. It doesn’t seem respectful. But while funerals have nice social...
