Historic UMC #GivingTuesday is Record-Breaking Day for Mission
Thanks to the generosity of United Methodists around the world, more than 880 projects and missionaries will receive a financial boost to help them meet their mission goals. The denomination’s General Board of Global Ministries announced that the first-ever UMC #GivingTuesday generated a record $6.5 million online on December 3. Nearly 11,000 donors in 34 countries gave […]
Recently Read: N. GA Conference discerns future of Simpsonwood
Many United Methodist’s in the Southeast Jurisdiction have attended conferences and meetings over the years at Simpsonwood, the retreat center outside of Atlanta operated by the North Georgia Conference(NGC). For several years that property has struggled and the NGC is involved in a time of discernment regarding the future of that property. Judy Putman at […]
Recently Read: ‘War on Christmas’ rings hollow for some
Do you have folks in your church who regularly talk about the “War on Christmas”? The Nashville Tennessean published an article this morning suggesting that prominent evangelicals are beginning to push back on this concern” It’s strange that folks would argue about saying “Merry Christmas” in public when Jesus Christ himself instructed his followers to […]
Recently Read: Where Contemporary Worship Lost Its Way
Matthew Sigler unpacks contemporary worship and the underlying theology behind it which has led to a disconnect in modern uses of the form: Now return to the scene I described above. What’s missing? The answer is found in looking at what happened when “praise and worship” was adopted by mainline denominations. During the 1990’s many […]
Being in the Middle
United Methodist news circles and the blogosphere have been roused of late regarding same-gender marriage ceremonies. The news, however, is mostly only news to us United Methodists. My casual, un-scientific poll of people outside of the UMC tells me that this is largely unnoticed by the greater society. Outside of the UMC and a few Facebook […]