by Jeff Greenway December 13, 2022 “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 I recently participated in my last meeting of the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Global Council after serving in one role of leadership or another for the last six and a half years. I’ve …
by Jay Therrell December 6, 2022 With just barely over a year to go before paragraph 2553 sunsets, the disaffiliation process for local churches continues. In many annual conferences, while painful, the process has proceeded with order and respect. Sadly, in some annual conferences that has not been the case. Acrimony and hurt feelings have …
by Jay Therrell November 29, 2022 Dear WCA Family, These days are a mix of joy and frustration. The joy is in the season. Ever since I was a little boy, the period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s has been extremely special to me. When I was young it was because of the decorations, food, …
by Jay Therrell November 22, 2022 The phrase two steps forward, one step back has come to mean that the journey ahead won’t be an easy one. Theological conservatives trying to depart The United Methodist Church certainly know what that’s like. The process to allow a church to disaffiliate has been anything but easy with …
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Grace and Peace to you in the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. During this week where we pause to focus on Thanksgiving, we pray each of you find time to reflect on all the many blessings God has given us. There are many and God is …
An Open Letter to Traditionalists, Centrists, and Progressives Read More »
by Jay Therrell November 15, 2022 For months (years, really) bishops in The United Methodist Church, along with other progressive leaders, have pushed hard on two ideas: 1. The United Methodist Church is a big tent. 2. There is room for everyone, including theological conservatives, in The United Methodist Church. From November 2-5, 2022, the …
By Rev. Dr. Carolyn Moore November 8, 2022 There is an interesting little debate inside the bigger United Methodist debate right now. It has to do with the ordination of a pastor. When a Methodist is ordained, the bishop lays hands on him or her and charges that person with these words: “Take authority as …
by the Rev. Dr. Maxie Dunnam October 25, 2022 Most ministers have a preaching style with practices that are common in their delivery of the sermon. Somewhere along the way in my preaching, I developed a practice of emphasis and repetition using the recurring phrase, “Let me say that again.” I say that when I …
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 …
Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Helping the People of Florida Read More »
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 …
