The One Church Plan: Calm and Rational?
By Walter Fenton February 12, 2019 According to the Rev Mark Holland, Executive Director of Mainstream UMC, the One Church Plan coming before the special General Conference of the...
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The Importance of the Creeds in the Intersections of Our Lives
By Nako Kellum February 5, 2019 “So what is a Christian?” This question came from a student in our young adult group at the Japanese Church in Lexington, Kentucky....
How the Church’s Sexual Ethics and Teachings on Marriage are Rooted in Scripture
February 1, 2019 In a paper entitled “Gender Matters: Human Sexuality and the Bible Yet Again”, Dr. Ben Witherington, III, writes: “It is no small thing for a church...
The Modified Traditional Plan: Faithful, Fair and Gracious
By Walter Fenton January 11, 2019 Of the several plans before the special United Methodist Church General Conference (February 23-26) in St. Louis, Missouri, the modified traditional plan is...
Making the Most of Women in Leadership
By Carolyn Moore September 5, 2018 This is the third of three articles by the Rev. Carolyn Moore on women in Scripture and in ministry. You can read the...
Women in Recent Church History
By Carolyn Moore August 29th, 2018 This is the second of three articles by the Rev. Carolyn Moore on women in Scripture and in ministry. You can read the...
Biblical Women and the Spread of the Gospel
August 22, 2018 By Carolyn Moore This is the first of three articles by the Rev. Carolyn Moore on women in Scripture and in ministry. As a pastor,...
FAQs, Number 2: The State of The United Methodist Church
July 26, 2018 Over the past several weeks a number of important developments have occurred in the UM Church, and the Wesleyan Covenant Association has received a number of...
FAQs – The State of The United Methodist Church
July 18, 2018 Over the past several weeks a number of important developments have occurred in the UM Church. The Wesleyan Covenant Association has received a number of questions...
Four Marks of the Next Methodism
July 5, 2018 By David Watson The Wesleyan movement, however, is much larger than the UM Church. At its core this movement is dynamic, revivalistic, and evangelistic, and in...
Going Forward with Scripture
June 27, 2018 By Walter Fenton “Given the current challenges directed to the unique place of the Bible in the church, we affirm that the core of the Christian...
Seeking Higher Ground: Conversations in the UMC
June 14, 2018 By Carolyn Moore As conversations around the future of the UM Church heat up in this annual conference season, I hold a prayer that we will...
Being Open to the Spirit of God: Wesley’s Theology of the Means of Grace
May 17, 2018 By J. Warren Smith Although John Wesley was highly critical of Augustine for his denial that perfection was possible in this life and for his doctrines...
Convincing Grace: the Grace of Repentance
April 26, 2018 By Andrew C. Thompson When Jesus Christ came preaching into the Galilee, he made clear that there was a precondition to our entrance into his kingdom....
Confidence for the Future
April 5, 2018 A Message from the Wesleyan Covenant Association “We’re an evangelical, orthodox congregation in an annual conference that leans progressive. We’re growing so fast that we desperately...