How a rural Oklahoma tree tells a tale for United Methodism. The Rocky Tree After Christmas 2015, I visited my family in …
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As goes Mississippi, so goes The #UMC
Church politics, economics, and leverage paint a rather dramatic picture of this moment playing out in Mississippi, …
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What really happens when a church leaves the #UMC
The ripple effects are waves upon not-too-distant shores The Mississippi Two? Recently, two high profile United Methodist …
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The sad tale of the free Book of Discipline
For six years, one of my projects in The United Methodist Church has been to free our doctrine, polity, and social statements from …
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