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Okay, that title is technically not a question someone asked; it is my invention. It does let me touch on multiple questions that people typically ask me about tithing in the churc...
A woman called the pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church in Bayonne, New Jersey, because she was in dire straits. A widow, her two sons grown up and moved away, she now had lost...
In Michigan’s northwest lower peninsula a number of United Methodist churches and organizations create fruitful ministries with young people in the midst of such a harvest economy....
QUESTION: The Principles of Presiding at the Lord's Table...
In part one of this two part episode, Scott and Steve have the opportunity to interview missional small group guru M. Scott Boren. We discuss what it means to be missional and what...
Ben Yosua-Davis interviews Christian Coon, pastor of Urban Village Church and author of "Failing Boldly: How Falling Down in Ministry Can Lead to Rising Up." Hear him share about t...
QUESTION: How Can I Make Changes in Worship Without Causing Conflict?...
So you’re a small church, a rural church, and you can’t afford a youth worker or pastor, and your senior pastor cannot take on youth ministry on top of all the other hats he/she we...
Join us for a conversation with Carl Gladstone: musician, podcaster, and campus minister in Detroit, MI as he shares with us about what it means for creative people to "take all th...
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9, NRSV) “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ...
On July 8, 2017, the Vatican issued a letter to all bishops in the Roman Catholic Church, worldwide, reminding them of their responsibilities under Canon Law to ensure that "proper...
I wanted to share stories from both a student and staff member from Gbarnga School of Theology about how being a part of the E-Reader Project.Wynetta S.T. Goodridge is a Senior stu...
QUESTION: Should Worship Be Organized Around the Church Year or the Secular Year?...
I met Sundaygar Duwah at the AAUMTI Writers' Workshop last month at Gbarnga School of Theology. An English lecturer and a poet, he is affable and passionate about writing. I hope y...
Adriano Kilende and Perfeito Massamba led an e-reader training at the Bishop Emílio de Carvalho School of Theology in West Angola. And the students want to say thank you for this ...
What are some of the best practices for starting small groups? In this episode, Scott interviews Brad Kalajainen, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone United Methodist Church near Grand Ra...
The participants of the fourth annual Writers' Workshop for Anglophone faculty of the African Association of United Methodist Theological Institutions (AAUMTI) were privileged to r...
That it may the more easily be discerned whether they are indeed working out their own salvation, each society is divided into smaller companies, called classes, ... There are abou...
QUESTION: What do United Methodists say about having the US flag in our worship spaces in the United States?...
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