Omnia Methodist Posts

Behind the noise of a divided culture, something powerful is happening. Behind the noise, a revival is stirring. Headlines shout that faith is fading. Churches are closing. Trust in institutions is crumbling. Many predict a future without God. Yet beneath the surface, a quiet revival is stirring. Belief in Jesus is not fading — it’s […]

Michael has published a new book on the potential gifts for today’s believers that we can have from the Nicene Creed on its 1700th anniversary. In this conversation, we talk about his book, who it is for, and the gifts we can garner from an awareness of its contents and context. Michael and I, now […]

Opposition to Methodism came swiftly and early. Anti-Methodist sentiment in Oxford and resistance to the early zealotry of the preachers has already been mentioned. But much of the opposition came from bishops concerned about a seemingly untethered movement within the Church that was not directly answerable to its leaders or from small communities who saw […]

In a pivotal decision by the United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council, pastors now have the discretion to officiate same-sex weddings, although regional bans remain firmly in place. According to the Christian Post, this ruling highlights the dichotomy between the church’s global governance and regional beliefs.

The first course I ever taught at the seminary level was Greek. I loved it. I was living my dream, still a grad student trying to slog my way through a dissertation. I put everything I had into teaching those Perkins students about cases and conjugations and other elements of Greek grammar and syntax. I […]

By Bob Phillips………In October 1862, photographer Matthew Brady opened a display in his Manhattan studio, entitled, “The Dead of Antietam.” The gallery included graphic scenes of dead soldiers and animals from this Civil War battle, which was at that time the bloodiest single day of warfare in U.S. history. A reporter from the New York […]

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The United Methodist Church leadership has clarified that a recent ruling from its top court allowing pastors to determine if they can officiate same-sex weddings dispute objections from church trustees does not overrule regional bans on the unions. The United Methodist Judicial Council ruled last month that church trustees could not prohibit a pastor from […]

From May 26 until June 4 of 1940, French and Belgian forces engaged in one of the biggest evacuation operations ever undertaken at that time. About 198,000 British soldiers and 140,000 French and Belgian troops were hastily evacuated from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used […]

Daren Mehl’s recent CP op-ed astutely exposed the dangers associated with “Side B” Christianity, which he defined this way: “People attracted to the same sex, though remaining celibate in obedience to the Bible, still can call themselves ‘gay Christians’ and see their attraction as part of their identity which should be acknowledged like one’s race […]