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Church History Made Before Our Eyes: United Methodists Make History, Affirm Biblical Standards of Sexuality

Church history spans two millennia—2,000 years of recorded experience. The weight of that history is heavy and humbling. Seen in that light, it takes a really big event to rank as historical, even as it happens. Such an event happened within the last ...

February 27, 2019

To Be Cool or to Be a Church? That is the Question

These days, what passes for important argument or debate takes place on Twitter, and a recent Twitter exchange between two prominent actors has sparked a major controversy. The exchange took place between Hollywood’s Ellen Page and Chris Pratt. Pa ...

February 16, 2019

Friday, Feb. 15, 2019

February 15, 2019

The Reality of Sexual Abuse Hits Home: What Happened? What Do We Do Now?

A massive investigative report appeared in the Sunday editions of the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. The headline was direct -- “20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms.” This art ...

February 11, 2019

Keep Up or Die?: A Church that Won’t Hold a Heresy Trial Isn’t Really a Church

J. Gresham Machen, the great Presbyterian theologian from the early decades of the 20th century, brilliantly assessed the state of modern Christianity and the rise of Protestant liberalism. Rather than seeing liberal theology as a variant of the Chri ...

February 8, 2019

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February 8, 2019

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