Approaching Separation: A Rejoinder to Adam Hamilton
By Thomas Lambrecht - I recently expounded the primary reasons I see for separation taking place in The United Methodist Church. That article drew the response of the Rev. Adam Hamilton, who felt that my characterization of centrist and progressive understandings was...
Coalition of Traditional Leaders Continues to Support the Protocol for Reconciliation and Grace through Separation
Over a year ago, a diverse group of United Methodist Church leaders released the Protocol for Reconciliation and Grace through Separation. Never before had leading bishops, general church officials, and leaders of advocacy groups representing centrists, progressives,...
Archive: Holy, “Knock-em-Down” Preachers
Archive: Holy, “Knock-em-Down” Preachers By John H. Wigger In 1802, 26-year-old Jacob Young began a new Methodist preaching circuit along the Green River, a vast and growing region of central Kentucky. Knowing he could count on little help from his supervising elder...
Archive: The Devil Can’t Blast Us Out of Faith or Ministry
Archive: The Devil Can’t Blast Us Out of Faith or Ministry By Boyce Bowdon The Devil can blast us out of our building, but he can't blast us out of our faith or out of our ministry," Craig Groeschel, associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma...
Archive: Lessons from the School of Intercession
Archive: Lessons from the School of Intercession By Stephen Seamands An "off-the-wall experience" opens the door to a new dimension of spiritual power and authority— The last thing I heard him say was, "Lord, let the spirit of intercession fall upon your people." What...
Archive: New Oden book causes stir
Archive: New Oden book causes stir By the time it was released in late January, a book by self-described "orthodox evangelical" Thomas C. Oden had prompted widespread criticism across the church and a defense by executives of Abingdon, the book publishing arm of the...
Archive: C.S. Lewis on Holiness
Archive: C.S. Lewis on Holiness By Jerry L. Walls It would be hard to overestimate the impact that C.S. Lewis has had on the Christian world through his popular apologetic writings. Consider the great ministry of Chuck Colson and the fact that his reading of Lewis was...
Archive: Reaching Generation X for Christ
Archive: Reaching Generation X for Christ By James H. Steele In what has become almost a wintertime ritual, United Methodist teens and counselors descend each January on Gatlinburg, a tourist town nestled in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. The omnipresent...
