6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (77+ words) This week I spoke with correspondent Simon Ostrovsky of The Newshour on PBS to discuss his new documentary about the impact on churches of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Please find our conversation viewable below on the IRD YouTube channel. I…...

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…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (137+ words) Evidential Support for Catholic Sexual Morality Alvaré then turned to evidential support for Catholic sexual morality. For each issue she addressed criticisms that are made against the church’s teaching, and research in these areas and effective responses that can be…...

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…...