What happened to the standing Committee on Faith and Order, established, I think, by the 2008 General Conference? I looked at several UM websites to see what I could dig up and found precious little, except for announcements about the
What happened to the standing Committee on Faith and Order, established, I think, by the 2008 General Conference? I looked at several UM websites to see what I could dig up and found precious little, except for announcements about the
In a previous post, I talked about United Methodism’s implosion. Of course, we are not a building. We are a people. Hence, the implosion can be reversed. What do we do to make the reversal happen? It’s time for me
I’m off to Georgia (St. Simon’s Island) to present at the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry next week, so I’ll be a little out of pocket for a while. I thought, therefore, that I’d go ahead and have a try,
(Continuing thoughts on trends. What’s going on with youth and emerging adults?) It started with reading Generation Me. Well, no, actually, it started with noticing something different in my college students’ classroom responses. Somewhere between the late 1990s and the
A quick post on the rise of the “nones,” a term made popular recently primarily by Pew Research and NPR. The links I’ve put here provide some qualifying thoughts to the trend of the rising “nones.” These articles remind me