Mark Tooley, author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010) discussed the UMC’s 2012 General Conference in an interview Tuesday on Issues Etc., a daily program produced by Lutheran Public Radio. You can listen to the 10-minute conversation below. (If the audio player doesn’t work, use this mp3 file.) Mark Tooley is [...]
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Book review: ‘Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century’
Posted in Bishops, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Politics, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on March 26, 2012 |
The following review is by Ray Nothstine, managing editor of Religion & Liberty, a publication of the Acton Institute. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He also served on the staff of former Rep. [...]
The Communion of Saints: March in Christian history
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, tagged Audio on March 2, 2012 |
March 2, 1791: Methodist founder John Wesley dies in London at age 87. At his death, the Methodist movement had 294 preachers and 71,668 members in Britain, plus 198 preachers and 43,265 members in America. Today Methodists number about 30 million worldwide. Among Mr. Wesley’s last words: “I’ll praise my maker” and “The best of [...]
The Communion of Saints: February in Christian history
Posted in Christian/Methodist History on February 2, 2012 |
Feb. 4, 1906: Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is born in Breslau, Germany. As one of the leaders of Germany’s Confessing Church, he opposed the Nazis. Bonhoeffer was arrested and eventually hanged — just days before Allied troops liberated the concentration camp where he was held. His books include The Cost of Discipleship. Feb. [...]
Should we turn control of UMC over to the Council of Bishops?
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 19, 2012 |
The following commentary is by Joe M. Whittemore, a member of the United Methodist Church’s Connectional Table. Mr. Whittemore, a delegate to the 2012 UM General Conference, has chaired Committee on Episcopacy for the Southeastern Jurisdiction and has served as the Lay Leader of North Georgia Annual Conference. This opinion piece was originally published in a [...]
United Methodists are well-liked, but to what end?
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Growth, Evangelism, Holiness, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 11, 2012 |
The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for 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) [...]
Happy Birthday to The Mission Society
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Missions, United Methodist Church on January 6, 2012 |
The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) is celebrating its 28th birthday today. Society president Dick McClain recounts the founding: A small gathering of people met together in an airport hotel in St. Louis. Like any other meeting, this one had potential — potential to be hardly remembered just a few months [...]
The Communion of Saints: January in Christian history
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 3, 2012 |
Jan. 1, 1622: The Roman Catholic church adopts January 1 as the beginning of the year, rather than March 25. Jan. 3, 1785: The Methodist “Christmas Conference” concludes at Baltimore, Md., having created the Methodist Episcopal Church in America (now the United Methodist Church). Francis Asbury (pictured kneeling) and Thomas Coke were elected as the [...]
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