This post is by Liza Kittle, president of RENEW Network, the women’s program arm of Good News, the United Methodist Church’s oldest renewal ministry. She writes about the Operational Assessment (executive summary | full report | appendices—all in PDF) submitted in late June to the UMC’s Call to Action Steering Team. The assessment was conducted [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Podcast — Billy Abraham: ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’
Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on September 20, 2010 |
The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season features Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North Ireland in 1947, William J. Abraham was educated at Queen’s University in Belfast, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and the University of Oxford [...]
Riley Case: ‘Operational Assessment’ shows UMC has lost its way
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Discipleship, General Conference, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. He writes below about the “Operational Assessment” of the United Methodist Church submitted in late June to the UMC’s Call to Action Steering Team. The assessment (executive summary | full report | appendices—all in PDF) [...]
The Communion of Saints: September in Christian history
Posted in Christian/Methodist History on September 6, 2010 |
September 1, 1957: At a massive rally in Times Square, Billy Graham concludes his 16-week evangelistic crusade in New York City, attended by nearly two million people (video). September 2, 1784: John Wesley consecrates Thomas Coke (right) as the first “bishop” of the Methodist church in America. An indefatigable itinerant minister, Mr. Coke crossed the [...]
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