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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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 UMC, United Methodist Church on January 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
UM seminary embraces non-Christian faiths, will train Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
With the stated goal of helping “solve the world’s big problems,” a seminary of the United Methodist Church is becoming an “inter-religious institution” and will add clerical-training programs for Jews and Muslims this fall. Southern California’s Claremont School of Theology (CST) — one of 13 official United Methodist seminaries — later plans to create programs [...]
A conversation with North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson
Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 9, 2009 |
Bishop Mike Watson, episcopal leader of the United Methodism’s largest U.S. Conference, is interviewed in the premiere issue (PDF) of the North Georgia Advocate, now the official newspaper of the North Georgia Conference. (The North Georgia Advocate is the successor to the recently discontinued Wesleyan Christian Advocate.) Bishop Watson was assigned to North Georgia last [...]
John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]
Bishop Robert Schnase on ‘The Five Practices’
Posted in Bishops, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on January 14, 2009 |
Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Conference) has done a great service for the United Methodist Church with his book, The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. The United Methodist News Service notes that “[p]ublisher Abingdon Press has sold nearly 75,000 copies of the Five Practices book, and demand is hot for the companion leader manual and media [...]
For the pastor on your Christmas gift list
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, Stewardship on December 16, 2008 |
Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn’s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and [...]
