On May 7, 1985, the Commissioning Service for the first missionaries of the new Mission Society for United Methodists was set for Highland Park Church, Dallas.  The president of the Council of Bishops, Bishop James Thomas, had made arrangements for three bishops to participate in the service.&n...

“Thy love divine hath led us in the past, in this free land by thee our lot is cast…”

Thanksgiving is America’s only holiday that is both a national day and a religious day.  By its very nature it defies the extremist arguments on total separation of church and state.  Thanksgiving is a...

The national elections are over and for many of us, none too soon.  The ugliness that accompanied the run-up to the election can only be described as depressing.  Regardless of how one voted there can be genuine rejoicing that the election of an African-American represents advancement and ...

Clayton Childers, writing in the General Board of Church and Society Faith in Action e-letter (the article also appears in UM NeXus) asks the question, “Why Not Use the Name United Methodists?”  Childers’ concern is with United Methodist megachurches which frequently de-emphasize the name Unite...

Clayton Childers, writing in the General Board of Church and Society Faith in Action e-letter (the article also appears in UM NeXus), has evidently just recently discovered that a number of large United Methodist churches are not outwardly identifying themselves as United Methodist.  Under the ...

In 1932, an independent committee formed under the influence of John D. Rockefeller Jr., (who subsidized theological modernism with millions of dollars), and authorized by eight denominations, did a study and then issued a report entitled “Re-Thinking Missions.”  Under the chairperson Dr. Willi...

It should be apparent by now, after forty years of decline, that United Methodism will never be renewed as long as the church insists on continuing the same kind of thinking, the same way of doing things, the same message, and the same institutionalism that has characterized the denomination over th...