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In contemporary Christian theology, accounts of the atonement are very much in flux. In what follows we will take a look at the two major conversations, the first about the “center” of atonement theology and the second about the role of vio…
Sep/24/2014
The Scriptures reveal the true God and God’s mission to redeem a lost humanity and heal a fractured creation. God’s mission assumes the active involvement of God’s people in the advancement of God’s kingdom. It is crucial for local communit…
Sep/22/2014
The concluding stanza in Charles Wesley’s “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” hymns the reality that empire parodies.
Changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, l…
Sep/15/2014
Much noise is being made in The United Methodist Church (UMC) about divergent views on human sexuality. Political strategies and aggressive campaigns have been designed and employed to win sympathy and votes in favor of a variety of opinion…
Sep/08/2014
The question of my title would not win any awards for cultural sensitivity in many congregations of our church. Visions of shouting boot camp sergeants, suspicions of militaristic sympathies, and fears of oppressive and hierarchical indoctr…
Aug/11/2014
Crisis at the border! Thousands of unaccompanied children are crossing vast distances and taking huge risks for the opportunity of receiving asylum in the US. Depending on whom you ask, the crisis is either a humanitarian crisis or a nation…
Aug/04/2014
I did something last Sunday I had never done before in all my 40 years of ministry. For my sermon I put on my "prophetic" robes and did a dramatic character presentation of the prophet Isaiah, beard, mantle, and all. Why I waited so long, I…
Jul/28/2014
We're building an annotated list of reading recommendations from some of our John Wesley Fellows.
Happy reading!
Joy J. Moore
Associate Dean for African American Church Studies
and Assistant Professor of Preaching
Fuller Theologica…
Jun/25/2014
How can Methodism, which has lost its class-meeting structure and much besides in its race to become the biggest “tent” in Protestantism, recover a discipline of pre- and post-baptismal formation? What are we to do when “believing, behaving…
Jun/23/2014
A recent trip to Central America and the annual celebration of Pentecost led me to reflect anew on the nature and practice of translation. Translation is a risky enterprise.
It is hard to translate well. There is more to translation than…
Jun/16/2014
There’s an eschatology of sorts in the hubbub — indeed, in the hubris — that attends so-called technological revolutions. Apocalyptic always makes epochs determined by “before” and “after,” whether it’s the apocalyptic imagination undergird…
May/19/2014
An elder in The United Methodist Church is ordained to the “ministry of Word, Sacrament, Order, and Service.” Ordering the church for its mission and service is the third categorical duty of an elder. It is also the area of the elder’s resp…
May/12/2014
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