by Tom Lambrecht | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog
A recent post by Morgan Guyton portrays two very different understandings of sin. It seems that most conservative Christians define sin “legalistically” as disobedience to God’s rules, while progressive Christians define sin “humanistically” as that which dehumanizes...
by Tom Lambrecht | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog
UM News Service reporter Heather Hahn recently recounted the third forum on sexuality held by the Connectional Table, this one in Mozambique. I was intrigued by the views of Bishop Christian Alsted of the Nordic and Baltic Area. Alsted “said some of the conferences...
by Tom Lambrecht | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog
“From the beginning, upholding Wesleyan standards of discipline constituted one of the cornerstones of American Methodism,” writes John Wigger in his excellent distillation of early American Methodism, Taking Heaven by Storm (p. 99). Thomas Rankin, John Wesley’s...
