Let’s face it: no one really knows what’s going to happen over the next few years within The United Methodist Church. Division? Restructuring? Fragmentation? Slow… read more

Several years ago I had the privilege of meeting Randy Clark. Randy was the principal preacher during the Toronto Blessing, a massive revival that began in 1994 and launched him… read more

Maybe it’s the futon we’ve been sleeping on in England. Or the conversation I had last night over a duck and cranberry pie with an English Methodist leader. But it… read more

I grew up in a time of coming together. I didn‘t know enough then to realize that coming together is not the norm for the Christian community. Except for those times when… read more

“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever… read more

Old Doctor Hawkins was a delightfully funny professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School back in the fifties — the nineteen fifties, that is. He was full of… read more