A Monday afternoon tweet by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received sharply negative responses from several United Methodist tweeters. At 4:19 p.m. Eastern Time, Mohler tweeted: “Join me in praying that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will hold firm for biblical standards of sexuality.” Mohler apparently was referring to [...]
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Sacred Agent Man: Singer-songwriter has unusual music ministry
Posted in Media on April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On this April Fools’ Day, we’re setting aside theological discussions and denominational news in favor of something a bit lighter. — Ed. – For more than two decades, singer-songwriter Mark Bradford has been putting smiles on the faces of morning-show radio listeners in cities such as Philadelphia, Houston and Kansas City with his dead-on parodies [...]
Adam Hamilton: How the UMC can have ‘a future with hope’
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
To reverse the United Methodist Church’s decades-long membership decline in the United States, local UM churches must embrace innovation and commit themselves to constant improvement, according to Adam Hamilton, leader of one of the UMC’s largest and most successful churches. Hamilton, founder and senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR) in [...]
Podcast: Charles Keysor—‘How Then Should UM Evangelicals Fight?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Media, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 31, 2010 |
During MethodistThinker.com’s late-summer hiatus, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News. In a 1986 tribute, published several months after Dr. Keysor’s cancer-related death at age [...]
MethodistThinker.com’s 2nd anniversary
Posted in Media, United Methodist Church on August 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
MethodistThinker.com is observing its second anniversary this week.* The site receives an average of 2,000-3,000 unique visitors each month, and over the past two years has enjoyed nearly 120,000 page views. The five most-viewed posts during the past 12 months all involved original reporting: 1. Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ [...]
Four things the UMC must do ‘to serve the present age’
Posted in Church Development, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This post is by Richard Hunter, senior pastor of Snellville United Methodist Church (North Georgia Conference). He holds a doctorate in parish revitalization from McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago) and teaches on the adjunct faculty at both Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology. — Ed. I want to be a part of renewing [...]
Podcast: Charles Keysor—‘How then should UM evangelicals fight?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Media, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 13, 2010 |
The third podcast of our spring season features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News. In a 1986 tribute, published several months after Dr. Keysor’s cancer-related death at age 60, Good News magazine described him as [...]
First anniversary: Looking back, looking ahead
Posted in Media, United Methodist Church on August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
MethodistThinker.com is celebrating its first anniversary this week!* Here is a list of our five most-viewed posts over the past 12 months: Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy Proposed amendments would separate UMC into ‘national entities’ John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC Joe [...]
After feedback from Bishop Palmer, UMNS revises amendments story
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Media, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on July 31, 2009 |
Following feedback from the president of the Council of Bishops, the United Methodist News Service has deleted a story released earlier this week and replaced it with a revised version, but not before the earlier version became the basis of a Religion News Service account published by USA Today and other newspapers. The earlier account, [...]
UMCom’s new ‘What if?’ video poses key questions, but leaves out Jesus
Posted in Media, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church, Video on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As part of its new Rethink Church campaign, United Methodist Communications has produced a captivating and challenging three-minute video aimed a fueling the sanctified imagination of local church leaders. The video — titled “What If” — asks penetrating questions, such as: What if “church” wasn’t just a place we go but something we do? What [...]
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