Boy Scouts shut down UMC based scout troop led by a gay man
Breaking news from NBCNews.com: The Boy Scouts organization has told a Seattle-area church that it can no longer host a troop because the church has vowed to keep a gay man on as troop leader. The Boy Scouts of America said Sunday that it was contacting leaders and parents of the children in Troop 98 […]
Recently Read: Six ways that capitalism fails the church
Morgan Guyton unpacks a blog conversation on whether capitalism has failed the church: It’s possible to navigate the free market system without worshiping the market. The problem is that passive participants in the capitalist market do end up making it their god insofar as they allow the market to determine the value of the created […]
Wesley Bros: The Fantastic Quadrilateral Part 5
Click picture to display in full screen mode I really love William Joseph Seymour, and he only made a guest appearance once before in the strip. I love him because he took the holiness of Wesleyan teaching and really reconnected it to a passionate religion of the heart. In a time when the revivalism and […]
Aging Well: The need for respite care
While scanning radio stations recently, I landed on a program that quickly caught my attention. A minister was talking about what it means to be a good steward of time. It got me to thinking specifically about how we choose to spend our second-half years when time is likely more plentiful than in our younger […]
Take 2: Son of God
Speaking for their film “Son of God,” producers Roma Downy and Mark Burnett spoke about their desire to update the epic Biblical films of the 1950’s and 60’s to better fit with today’s audiences. With greater technological tools at their disposal, “Son of God” is sharper and crisper than the epic narratives of 50 years […]
Recently Read: Hamilton takes on conservative biblical interpretations on same-sex relationships
Adam Hamilton is well known throughout the United Methodist Church as the very successful pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS, the largest UMC in the United States. He’s recently been generating some buzz with his new book Making Sense of the Bible, in which he articulates a moderate approach to […]
UMC raises 80 percent of funding goal for Imagine No Malaria
Nashville, Tenn. — Imagine No Malaria announced today that United Methodists are 80 percent of the way toward reaching their goal of raising $75 million by 2015. In the past year alone, the people of The United Methodist Church have made contributions and pledges of more than $28 million, boosting the total raised to more […]
