This past Saturday, 36 United Methodist pastors and 9 clergy of other denominations joined to do a service of holy
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The Judicial Council met recently to consider a long list of cases posed by various annual conferences. I have given
Read MoreThe news broke over the weekend that more than 30 United Methodist clergy from the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference plan
Read MoreThis is the last in a series of three posts attempting to describe what we mean by our clergy covenant
Read MoreIn my last post (you can read it here), I began to answer the question what we and others mean
Read MoreA recent post by Kevin Nelson on the Reconciling Ministries Network blog examined the issue of “covenantal harm” — the
Read MoreComments in a recent article by Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, caught my attention. Trust
Read MoreChristianity is full of tensions or paradoxes between seeming opposites: Jesus Christ being both fully God and fully human; the
Read MoreCan congregations leave their denomination and keep their property? That question has been percolating within Methodism and other mainline denominations
Read MorePolling Trends on Same-Sex Marriage By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht News reports for several years have trumpeted rising poll numbers in
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