by Jay Therrell October 18, 2022 My family moved to Florida when I was four years old. Since then, I’ve been proud to be a Floridian. There is so much to love about our state. It doesn’t take a Floridian long, however, to realize that for six months of the year, we live in “hurricane …
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by Jay Therrell October 11, 2022 In August of this year, the Wesleyan Covenant Association made the prayerful, unanimous decision of its Global Council to call upon laity in 19 annual conferences to begin withholding/escrowing their apportionments. We determined that these 19 annual conferences had placed onerous and punitive additional requirements to their disaffiliation processes …
by David F. Watson October 4, 2022 Few terms today are as provocative as “Christian nationalism.” What we mean by this term can vary quite widely. The Baptist group BJC Online draws up on the work of Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry in their book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United …
by Jay Therrell September 27, 2022 Dear WCA Family, “The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the …
by Jay Therrell September 20, 2022 As more and more churches are disaffiliating and breaking free from The United Methodist Church, the next question that faces them is: what do we do now? Do we align with the Global Methodist Church? Do we choose to go independent? Or something else? It’s a good and right …
by Rev. Dale Shunk September 13, 2022 For more than two years the WCA International Intercessory Prayer Network (IIPN) has prayed and fasted by Zoom every Monday at 9:00 PM under the capable leadership of the Rev. Leo Park and like “midwives” we helped birth the Global Methodist Church on May 1, 2022. Leo has …
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by Chris Ritter September 9, 2022 Even without a General Conference, 2022 is shaping up to be the most eventful year in a generation for American Methodists: (1) The General Conference that was to have approved a historic Separation Protocol was delayed until 2024, amid a cloud of political intrigue. (2) The Global Methodist Church …
by Jay Therrell August 30, 2022 Last year I started a reading project that will no doubt take me a while to complete. I’m attempting to read a major biography of all 45 U.S. presidents. Currently, I’m on John Quincy Adams, which means I’ve completed books on all five of the “Founding Fathers” who became …
No More! by The Rev. Dr. Warren Lathem August 24, 2022 The words were shocking. Did I read that correctly? Was the Wesleyan Covenant Association actually saying, “immediately begin withholding all apportionments and escrow them.” Was such a drastic call merited? Could such a thing happen? Reading the entire article, “Let Our People Go!” revealed …
By Scott Pattison January 25, 2022 When we embark upon a journey with family, friends, or colleagues we almost always have a destination in mind. And as important as that destination is, along the way we have the opportunity to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones. Last year, a small group of members from …
