5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (358+ words) As a result of this courageous stand, some congregations sadly abandoned the church, refusing to respect the authority of the confessions. Once they left, the reformation was seemingly complete, and faithful governance continued. This “Ongoing Reformation” merits celebration. Yet every…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (442+ words) “It matters not how long we live, but how well.” -John Wesley John Wesley wrote these words in 1760 in a letter to Dorothy Furly. She received many letters from Wesley with pastoral and health advice. Wesley corresponded with a number…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (262+ words) An article last week in The New Yorker mentioned our Institute on Religiona and Democracy. Bill McKibben, a longtime climate activist and a United Methodist, highlights Mainline Protestants running for public office as a sign of Mainline Protestant revival, of…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (471+ words) “Above all, add to the rest (for it is not labour lost) that old unfashionable medicine, prayer.” -John Wesley The prayer that Wesley would have heard this past week in church is called the “Collect for the Twelfth Sunday after…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (387+ words) Winter is not simply the weather; it is the horizon of possibility in which spring is no longer possible, and the hope of new beginnings has been buried under winter snow. Yet, does the gospel really permit us to ignore…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (874+ words) This December will mark a decade since Methodism’s loss of Tom Oden, a theologian and churchman who was a giant in the theological world. Tom was a colleague to many of us and a friend to the renewal and confessing…...