Reparations to Black Americans for centuries of slavery and oppression have been discussed for a long time. But ever since journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote “The… read more

We were sitting around the dinner table. I couldn’t have been more than five, though I might have been younger. I don’t remember why but the conversation had turned to … read more

Easter Celebrations Across the Globe Millions of Christians will celebrate Easter across the globe with many different traditions, rituals, and types of worship services. Although … read more

Old Doctor Hawkins was a delightfully funny professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School back in the fifties — the nineteen fifties, that is. He was full of… read more

The United Methodist Church is a movement built for mission, but our path is besieged by fighting and posturing. And get ready because the middle ground is being carved up too… read more

Ecclesiology is one of those seminary words that doesn’t often find a place in the day to day lives of people of the United Methodist Church. It simply means a theology of… read more