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Orthodoxy has fallen from favor among some otherwise fervent adherents of Christianity. Its critics associate orthodoxy with old-fashioned, unreasonable Christian beliefs from a bygone era. Moreover, its detractors often link orthodoxy with…
Nov/25/2013
The room was packed with excited youth workers numbering in the thousands. The lights dimmed and the spotlight moved to the left side of the stage to flood a man in his late thirties in jeans and button-down shirt. On the multiple screens b…
Nov/20/2013
A missional hermeneutic seeks to read the Scripture as a map to God’s mission in the world.
In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus begins his ministry with the bold and audacious proclamation of the arrival of God’s kingdom. Here, we will focus on M…
Nov/18/2013
Hymns based on the poetry of Charles Wesley (1707-1788) have been one of the principal means by which Wesleyan teachings have been transmitted to generations of Methodist people. Thousands of Methodist folk who have never read a line of Joh…
Nov/13/2013
We live and move and have our being in a world filled with entertainments, and with the culture industries that produce them, and the structures, networks and devices that mediate them. That we are capable of being entertained, and that our…
Nov/11/2013
Through his lyrical paraphrase of 1 Thess 5:17, Charles Wesley sang the importance of prayer into the hearts and minds of the early Methodist people.
Pray, without ceasing pray
(Your Captain gives the word),
His summons cheerfully obey,
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Nov/06/2013
There’s a lot of writing going on in the Wagner household lately. My preschooler is learning to write letters. My kindergartener is beginning to weave letters into words and words into the occasional sentence. And Mommy is writing – well, e…
Nov/04/2013
David Kinnaman, a best-selling author and president of the Barna Group, addresses the factors that contribute to teens and twenty-somethings leaving the church in his recent book, You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and…
Oct/28/2013
Don Thorsen is a Wesleyan, and there's never any doubt about where his allegiances lie in his new book, Calvin vs. Wesley: Bringing Belief in Line with Practice (Nashville: Abingdon, 2013). From the first page to the last, though, his tone …
Oct/23/2013
The most pressing topic for me today is what J.I. Packer has recently called “the lost art of catechesis.” How is it, I have come to ask myself, that so many churches do not know how to hand on the faith? How is it that in my thirty years o…
Oct/21/2013
For the past three years I have had the opportunity of leading teams of theological educators to Central America as part of a program for training Methodist pastors for the countries of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. As yo…
Oct/14/2013
We were sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of coffee as we had done so many times. Our conversation was unhurried, punctuated by stretches of easy silence. We had been talking about the Holy Spirit, children, and art. Now we simpl…
Oct/07/2013
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