Over the past weekend, I made a quick trip to Kentucky to spend some time with dear friends who work together in a mission organization. For many years I worked with them until I felt like my new job at
Over the past weekend, I made a quick trip to Kentucky to spend some time with dear friends who work together in a mission organization. For many years I worked with them until I felt like my new job at
I am having a blast teaching United Methodist Doctrine to a group of theology school students. I’ve been out of the classroom for a year, so it feels good to get back in there. Yesterday, we covered that part of
People who read John Wesley and study early Methodism know quite well that the only criterion for joining a Methodist society was “the desire to flee the wrath to come.” Sometimes this statement is used as an argument against doctrinal
I have been seriously pondering John Wesley’s doctrine of Christian perfection for several years. Have we his heirs advanced or retreated in our understanding of Methodism’s “grand depositum” as he put it? I don’t know. We certainly don’t like the
Reading John Wesley’s Sermon (actually, it’s Charles’, I recently learned) , “The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes,” reminds me again of how societies’ assumptions can change. The title alone strikes today’s reader as quaint, to say the least. An earthquake