September 17, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field, President The WCA Outlook this week will be blessedly brief. Many in the WCA/GMC world are currently “running at Mach 2 with their hair on fire.” It’s “Go Time”! The long-awaited Convening Conference of the GMC arrives this week. We’re about to turn the corner from “provisional” …
San Jose and the Shore Birds: Ready for the GMC to take flight? Read More »
September 10, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Recent dustups among Methodists have brought to mind lyrics from Tina Turner, the iconic Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Oh-oh, what’s love got to do, got to do with it? What’s love but a second-hand emotion? Mark Millan of The Daily Vault described “What’s Love Got to Do with …
September 3, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field, President of the Wesleyan Covenant Association United Methodist Insight and the United Methodist Africa Forum should immediately retract, refute, and apologize for this reckless and dangerous lie. In the wake of actions by the recent United Methodist General Conference redefining Christian marriage to include same-sex couples and …
August 27, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field The Wesleyan Covenant Association is governed by a Global Council which meets monthly and the annual meeting of the Global Legislative Assembly (GLA). The Assembly is composed of delegates from the various regional chapters of the WCA throughout Africa, the Philippines, Europe, and the US. Last week …
WCA Sharpens Focus on Africa, the Philippines, and “Stuck” Congregations in the USA Read More »
August 13, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field On May 1st, by a vote of 516 to 203, United Methodist General Conference delegates ended a disaffiliation policy added by the special 2019 General Conference and used by about a quarter of U.S. churches to leave The United Methodist Church. “The season of disaffiliation ends today,” …
August 6, 2024By Rev. Dr. Scott Field A couple of weeks back USA Bishop John Schol traveled to Nigeria to lead what he had called for as a Peace and Reconciliation Conference to address the growing division among Nigerian United Methodists. Multiple sources have described the failure of the attempt and the subsequent vote by …
Three Reasons Why the Nigeria Peace Conference for Methodists Never Got Past Square One Read More »
July 30, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Right now, many of us, understandably, might be challenged to disengage from the breakneck pace of political chutes and ladders going on in the USA, the celebrations, scandals, and drama of the Summer Olympics in Paris, and the awareness that whatever was supposed to happen for each …
July 18, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Every week this summer, typically the “slow season” for local churches, I hear from newly-activated United Methodist laity. Many are just becoming aware of the major changes authorized by the recent UMC General Conference. They are finding themselves now in a denomination boldly moving forward on an …
June 27, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field AfricaNOW: The Missional Focus AfricaNOW is a short-term, laser-focused initiative of the Wesleyan Covenant Association to provide financial support to African Methodists for information development and distribution, advocacy, and networking opportunities as momentum builds there for separation from the UMC. African Methodists are rising up in response …
Here’s a WCA Gamechanger to Support African Methodists Read More »
June 18, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Whether or not this quote attributed to Groucho Marx is authentic, a recent statement by the Northeast Jurisdiction College of Bishops (United Methodist) brought it to mind…along with another familiar statement about “principles” “If someone says, ‘It’s not about the money; it’s the principle of the thing’, …
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well I have others.” – Groucho Marx Read More »