Omnia Methodist Posts

This summer, courts in British Columbia will decide whether faith-based healthcare institutions may keep their current exemption from providing euthanasia services, euphemistically known as medical aid in dying (MAiD). Under current rules, Canadian religious hospitals, most of them Catholic, are not obligated to euthanize patients on-site but must arrange referrals and transfers for patients.

We live in an incredible age for ministry. A pastor can encourage hundreds of people through a livestream. A devotional can reach someone on the other side of the world. AI can help us organize our thoughts, create graphics, write newsletters, and even spark ideas for sermons and Bible studies. Technology has become an incredible […]

Why does Christianity sometimes seem to have so little effect on the lives of Christians? Why hasn’t it had a greater effect on the world? / John Wesley asked that question more than two centuries ago. In his sermon “Causes of the Inefficacy of Christianity,” Wesley wrestled with a troubling reality: if Christianity is true […]

I grew up in the Church of the Nazarene and have heard about holiness (or entire sanctification) my entire life. When I was in high school, I started paying attention a bit more to this topic, and so I asked my pastor for books describing sanctification because I really didn’t know what it was. He […]

“Wesleyan theology is weak theology.” / That is the message I received from a Calvinist pastor friend during a phone call recently when discussing Wesleyan theology. The statement took me by surprise because I held (and still hold) this man of God and his opinions in high regard. I was dumbfounded and saddened because I […]

Methodists talk a lot about holiness (or at least we should). Holiness is central to our calling and how we understand the very reason for our existence. As we talk about holiness, though, we must remember that it’s not purely conceptual. Holiness doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For human beings, holiness is forged through trial […]

/ by Chris Ritter / It is an honor to be a delegate to the first regular General Conference of the Global Methodist Church. This meeting, August 30 to September 5 at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, will elect eight global bishops, consider a new doctrinal statement, and amend our Book of Doctrines and […]

PlainSpoken / With the GMC’s General Conference quickly approaching, it is important for folks to know what is going on in order for us to rightly pray. We all want for the Global Methodist Church to give glory to God and walk in obedience. This doesn’t magically happen. It requires conversation, deliberation, sometimes disagreement.

Megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton has won the Democratic primary and will face off against incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, Republican, in his bid to become Kansas’s first Democratic senator in nearly a decade

What I learned about education, ability, and overcoming a bad start / Matt O’Reilly / People who know me now are often surprised to find out that I spent much of my undergrad on academic probation. After all, I hold a PhD from a British university and have authored multiple books and articles at both […]

Discover the heart of Christian faith: clear, grounded, and full of grace. A fresh guide to what Christians believe and why it matters, told through the wisdom of the Wesleyan tradition.

There is a common canard that Mainline Protestants are radical leftists. This impression is fed by “woke” preacher clips from Mainline pulpits and other online characterizations that portray only a very small segment of the Mainline world.

The philosopher and spiritual writer, Dallas Willard, of blessed memory, wrote the following exhortation in the introduction to his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines: “Our local assemblies must become academies of life as it was meant to be.” That phrase, “academies of life,” stimulates some thought.

In 1842 and 1843, Orange Scott, along with some other Methodist Episcopal leaders, decided they could no longer stay in the denomination they had poured their lives into. The driving issue was slavery. Could Methodism be a movement that allowed, and sometimes seemingly encouraged, this pernicious institution? These leaders said no. A surprising number of […]

“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church.” I hesitated as I recited these words at a well-meaning evangelical church. I was glad that they were saying the Apostles’ Creed, and that the substance of the holy apostolic faith was communicated. But the word “catholic” is precious to me, and I am saddened […]

Matt O’Reilly “Scripture is without error in all it affirms.” That statement appears in the proposed Articles of Faith of the Global Methodist Church. That statement has also raised important questions about what it actually entails. To what beliefs about the Bible are we considering committing ourselves? What does the statement mean? And, just as important, […]