Methodist Vanguard Gallery: New Vine Community Church Lena, Illinois
October 22, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field The vanguard of Methodists leaving the United Methodist denomination are seeking a more faithful and fruitful future than they can see...
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Fresh from the Methodist Vanguard Gallery: One of the Stories Received this week.
October 15, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field What is the Methodist Vanguard? The UMC media, understandably, generally uses mildly pejorative terms to refer to those of us who...
The Missing Number: Introducing a crowd-sourced gallery to encourage the rising Methodist Vanguard.
October 8, 2024 by Rev. Dr. Scott Field How many United Methodists have simply walked away from their congregation? That was the question raised in a recent conversation. A...
We have lift off!
October 1, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Did you hear about the Global Methodist Church Convening Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica last week? The global gathering of...
San Jose and the Shore Birds: Ready for the GMC to take flight?
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...
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Tina Turner and the Ongoing Division of the United Methodist Church
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...
Is the Wesleyan Covenant Association, as alleged, complicit in being “ready to beat, even to kill, to grab membership and properties from the United Methodist Church” in Africa?
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...
WCA Sharpens Focus on Africa, the Philippines, and “Stuck” Congregations in the USA
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...
“Disaffiliation Ends Today!” Well, kinda, sorta in most places. We’ll know for sure in October, or January, or, we think, for sure by June of 2025, but maybe later.
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...
Three Reasons Why the Nigeria Peace Conference for Methodists Never Got Past Square One
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...
You’d think that after 50 years of listening, the message would have gotten through. Apparently not.
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...
Plan B for United Methodist Churches
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...
Here’s a WCA Gamechanger to Support African Methodists
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...
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well I have others.” – Groucho Marx
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...
Is There Room for Traditionalist Pastors in The United Methodist Church?
June 11, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field Is there still room for traditionalist pastors in the United Methodist Church? I get a fair number of contacts asking this...
Is it time for you, and your congregation, and maybe your annual conference to consider leaving the United Methodist Church now?
June 4, 2024 By Rev. Dr. Scott Field If you read the WCA Outlook you are aware that in the past couple of years over 25% of United Methodist...