The Gift That Kept on Giving
By Boyce A. Bowdon - It was Wednesday, May 27, 1981. The session of the Oklahoma Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church was underway at Boston Avenue Church in Tulsa. Next on the agenda was a presentation of the largest gift for missions the Oklahoma...
Revisiting The Character of a Methodist
By David F. Watson - In his influential tract “The Character of a Methodist,” John Wesley describes the kind of person he hopes God will produce through the Methodist movement. True Christianity, according to Wesley, consists not simply in belief or good works, ...
Church membership tops 12 million
http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=9135453&tr=y&auid=7825552
Forecast for South Sudan: Hope
http://bloombytes.blogspot.com/2011/02/forecast-for-south-sudan-hope.html?tr=y&auid=7825563
UM Stance on War a “Hodgepodge of Disciplines”
http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=1814
Disciple Bible study goes to prison
http://www.gcumm.org/news/2011/02-16/united-methodists-to-take-disciple-bible-study-to-14-tennessee-prisons?tr=y&auid=7833244
The Renewal and Reform Coalition responds to the statement from 33 retired United Methodist bishops
In early February 2011, a group of retired United Methodist bishops issued “A Statement of Counsel to the Church—2011” in which they called upon The United Methodist Church to remove statements in ¶ 304.3 of The Book of Discipline that declare “The practice of...
Theological Renewal, The AFTE Effect
Albert Outler and Ed Robb were vexed over the theological trends in the seminaries preparing United Methodist preachers and professors. They wanted something substantial and transformative that would provide long-term change. What they agreed upon was AFTE, a program designed to raise up a new generation of leaders.
