Between Making Hay and the Dark Night of the Soul
By Elizabeth Glass Turner When things were normal, Summer was a season for seeing people we normally didn’t get to visit much: family reunions in park pavilions or vacation at a camp where we see people we only see once a year. In a spiritual sense, a similar...
The Theology Behind Ordination
By David Watson - The Wesleyan Covenant Association has released a series of articles on new paragraphs for inclusion in its draft “Book of Doctrines and Discipline.” In the first article on these sections, the Rev. Dr. David F. Watson addresses the theological...
The Limits of Liberalism
The Limits of Liberalism By William H. Willimon March/April 1991 In The Nature of Doctrine: Theology in a Post-Liberal Age, Yale theologian, George Lindbeck notes that if you are a modern, Western Christian, you are a liberal. You may call yourself conservative...
Archive: Paul Morell: Treading Firmly Where the Lines Are Thinnest
Archive: Paul Morell: Treading Firmly Where the Lines Are Thinnest By Martha Davis It’s Sunday morning at First United Methodist Church of Carrollton, Texas. A crowd of 500 or more area-Dallasites is seated for the first of two morning services; the choir has sung the...
Archive: What Did the Neighbors Think?
Archive: What Did the Neighbors Think? Were Nazareth’s backyard gossips abuzz about betrothed Mary’s pregnancy? By Harold F. Greenlee A young faculty member, my translator at a Bible seminary in Indonesia, was engaged to be married. I asked him when he planned to...
Archive: Convo Gives UMs New Hope
Archive: Convo Gives UMs New Hope "I believe Jesus Christ is asking us to go to the young people of the world," said keynote speaker Bishop Richard B. Wilke, Arkansas Area. "One-half of the population of the world is under 14 years of age, and they gulp for the air of...
Archive: Who Will Evangelize the World in 2000 A.D.?
Archive: Who Will Evangelize the World in 2000 A.D.? Church Historian Gerald H. Anderson says the effects of mainline’s decline will be more far-reaching than we realize. The following is a condensation of an address given by Dr. Gerald H. Anderson at the 1990...
Archive: What’s All the HOOPla at Union Chapel?
Archive: What’s All the HOOPla at Union Chapel? By Sara L. Anderson Muncie’s Union Chapel UMC is growing because members take the court, not warm the bench. This isn't a story about basketball. It's a story about a little brick church in the cornfield that grew so...
