(I wrote this post, as you can see, two days ago. I felt like I should sit on it and let it simmer before I hit “publish.) It’s Palm Sunday afternoon, 2020. We have never seen a Holy Week like
The Twentysomething Soul #3 – Evangelical Protestants
We have entered the Advent season, so this post comes with the prayer that your Advent preparations bring blessing to yourself and others. I continue to mull over the findings of Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley in The Twentysomething Soul. Let’s
The Next Methodism Needs Bishops
With the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference’s proposal to disaffiliate from one part of The United Methodist Church and join with another part in a different geographical area, we have more evidence that the denomination as we know it is kaput. It
Concerns and Hopes for the College Student Experience
I had the most enjoyable privilege of participating in a panel discussion on the gospel and the university campus, sponsored by The Living Church Institute. It gave me the opportunity to interact with a group of practitioners who had very
Judicial Council Proves We’re Already in Schism
The United Methodist Judicial Council (JC) has issued their ruling on the proposed plans going to General Conference 2019. They have done us a big favor. They help us to realize the fundamental rift running through the denomination. First, a