Finishing Well
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Jay Therrell November 1, 2022 I was traveling in Alabama for the WCA recently and mentioned in a virtual meeting that I was driving through the town of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...