- MAiD in Canada
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… Read more: MAiD in Canada - The Hidden Ministry of Showing Up
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… Read more: The Hidden Ministry of Showing Up - John Wesley: The Biggest Danger Facing the Church
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… Read more: John Wesley: The Biggest Danger Facing the Church - The Search for Holiness
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… Read more: The Search for Holiness - Weakness is the Way: What Could a Wesleyan Theological Resurgence Look Like?
“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… Read more: Weakness is the Way: What Could a Wesleyan Theological Resurgence Look Like? - The Character Test of a New Denomination: Pursuing Holiness at the 2026 Global Methodist General Conference
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… Read more: The Character Test of a New Denomination: Pursuing Holiness at the 2026 Global Methodist General Conference - Thoughts on Superintendency Legislative Petitions
/ 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… Read more: Thoughts on Superintendency Legislative Petitions - Considering Johannesburg – Session 1
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… Read more: Considering Johannesburg – Session 1 - Progressive Pastor of Largest Methodist Church Wins Dem. Senate Primary
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 - I Was on Academic Probation. Then I Earned a PhD
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… Read more: I Was on Academic Probation. Then I Earned a PhD - Key Christian Beliefs (eBook)
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. - Are Mainline Protestants Leftists?
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. - Academies of Life
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,… Read more: Academies of Life - Rooted in the Spirit: The Wesleyan Church’s Identity as a Faithful, Free, and Fruitful People
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,… Read more: Rooted in the Spirit: The Wesleyan Church’s Identity as a Faithful, Free, and Fruitful People - The Word “Catholic” Is Worth Fighting For
“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… Read more: The Word “Catholic” Is Worth Fighting For - What “Without Error” DOES NOT Mean for the Global Methodist Church
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… Read more: What “Without Error” DOES NOT Mean for the Global Methodist Church - Apologetics Calmly Considered: A Wesleyan Vision of Truth, Formation, and Christian Witness
by Rev. Todd A. Christine / What has too often been separated—truth and holiness, knowledge and life—must once again be held together in the witness of the Church. Apologetics Calmly Considered: A Wesleyan Vision of Truth, Formation, and Christian Witness argues… Read more: Apologetics Calmly Considered: A Wesleyan Vision of Truth, Formation, and Christian Witness - Awakening Hope in the Next Generation | David Thomas on Revival and the Asbury Outpouring
Asbury Theological Seminary / Dr. David Watson and Dr. Jessica LaGrone welcome David Thomas, leader with Seedbed Publishing and New Room Conference, board member of Alpha International, and a leader in The Awakening Project, for a powerful conversation on revival,… Read more: Awakening Hope in the Next Generation | David Thomas on Revival and the Asbury Outpouring - Legislation Author Interview – Chappell Temple
PlainSpoken with Jeffrey Rickman / Why it is that he and so many others are of the mind that the Articles of Religion needs to be updated and amended, what it is that his draft offers in distinction to the… Read more: Legislation Author Interview – Chappell Temple - Good News Revisited: Lifestyle Evangelism
By Thomas Lambrecht This article first appeared in the August 2021 edition of Good News. As a declining denomination in the midst of cultural headwinds becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity, we wonder how to be a growing, vital church. Although… Read more: Good News Revisited: Lifestyle Evangelism - What Do Methodists & Wesleyans Believe? An Introduction to the Movements ~ Jessica LaGrone
Wesleyanism is a vibrant movement of Christianity that traces its roots to the eighteenth-century ministry of two brothers, John and Charles Wesley. Emerging initially as a renewal movement within the Church of England, it sought to restore what its founder,… Read more: What Do Methodists & Wesleyans Believe? An Introduction to the Movements ~ Jessica LaGrone - Structural Racism in the United Methodist Church?
African United Methodists, largely represented by United Methodist Africa Initiative until 2021, became the majority in the denomination the same year that the United Methodist Church (UMC) at the 2024 General Conference removed a 52-year-old clause declaring “the practice of… Read more: Structural Racism in the United Methodist Church? - Make Life Sacred Again ~ David Watson
In recent years, Carl Trueman has emerged as one of the most significant voices in the Christian world. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020) is a… Read more: Make Life Sacred Again ~ David Watson - Are Global Methodists Confessional
What role do doctrinal standards actually play in the life of the church? In this new episode of the Theology Project Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Joel Chopp to discuss the proposed Articles of Faith before the Global Methodist… Read more: Are Global Methodists Confessional - More Americans are now reading the Bible but fewer believe it’s 100% accurate: study
With Millennials and Generation Z leading the way, particularly among men, Bible reading among U.S. adults in 2025 is at its highest level in the last 15 years, according to new data from the “State of the Church” initiative. The… Read more: More Americans are now reading the Bible but fewer believe it’s 100% accurate: study