Feb 26, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
Colleagues across the country will soon be heading to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church. This body only meets every four years, and is the only structure of our denomination that can make changes to our doctrine or official stance on any issue. One...
Feb 24, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture, US Politics
Who are we? Where are we? What is the problem? What is the solution? These four questions round out the scholarly method used by N.T. Wright to examine some of the deepest questions of our faith. Wright has examined Jesus, Paul, the notion of the Kingdom of Heaven,...
Feb 17, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
For the past two weeks, I’ve been inspired to write about the United Methodist Church. A video from the General Board of Discipleship set the wheels in motion. In that video, a simple question was posed to key leaders in our denomination: “Where will the...
Feb 15, 2012 | Announcements, General, Methodism, Pop Culture
We are dying. Every last one of us. One inescapable fact of life is that everyone dies. “One out of one,” is the way it was put to me. But what happens when an entire generation begins to die? What happens when that generation is larger than normal? What...
Feb 10, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
Last week, I posted about some of the visions that are being shared by some of the leaders of the United Methodist Church. If you haven’t read that post, it would be helpful to do so before you continue. The United Methodist General Board of DiscipleshipThat...
Jan 21, 2012 | General, Methodism, Pop Culture
You’ve probably seen this already, the viral video about one young man’s effort to dissect his faith and remove the evil that has grown up inside it. Jefferson Bethke titles his spoken word missive, “I Hate Religion.” See it here. His goal is...
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