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Riley Case: Seminaries and the decline of United Methodism

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Leadership Development, Ordination, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) and [...]

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The Communion of Saints: August in Christian History

Posted in Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Revival on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

August 6, 1801: Revival hits a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky (as pictured in sketch below). Within a week, 25,000 were attending the revival services. Cane Ridge became the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening. Although the revival at Cane Ridge grew out of a Presbyterian gathering, it [...]

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‘Preparing for revival’

Posted in Camp Meeting, Holiness, Revival, Sermons, tagged on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I had the privilege of hearing my District Superintendent preach yesterday at the Poplar Springs Camp Meeting (founded in 1832) in Franklin County, Georgia. The Rev. Dr. Robin Lindsey (he’s a down-to-earth guy who prefers to be called by his first name) is the Superintendent of the Athens-Elberton District in the North Ga. Conference. His [...]

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