Your phone rings. It is the receptionist at the front desk. She says there is a lady there who is asking for food. You glance
The Five Practices, the Four Foci, Three Simple Rules – Methodists love numbering things. Of course, the people of God have a long history of
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
“The Western world has lost its faith in the shadow of church steeples.” (Alex McManus) A few years ago I wrote the essay, “What Is
We have all heard that the word gospel means “good news.” What we may not fully appreciate are the layers of good news in the
Scholars differ in their understanding of worldview. They do not differ in their agreement that worldview is—that is, it exists. Naturalists and biologists, psychologists, anthropologists
This is a time of much exciting activity in two fields of theological study that are of special interest to me and, I suspect, also
A missional hermeneutic is an interpretive approach that privileges mission as the key to reading the Scriptures. Missional hermeneutics works across the spectrum of approaches
In 2001 at the University of Cambridge, I met Thomas McElwain, a Muslim anthropologist from a Scandinavian university. A native West Virginian, he had gone
Eli Stanley Jones was born in Clarksville, Maryland, on January 3, 1884, at the height of the American Holiness Movement. Even though as a Christian