Engaging an African Bishop By Thomas Lambrecht A recent commentary by Bishop Mande Muyombo (North Katanga Area in the Congo Central Conference) sets forth his understanding of where things are and where things are headed for The United Methodist Church in Africa. Given Muyombo’s position of power within the church’s hierarchy,
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday we will be returning to the basic pattern of worship in the United Methodist Book of Worship (1992). This is a relatively flexible worship pattern which may be easily tailored to local circumstances, one of the features which commends it. Reading: Psalm
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it .—Matthew
We’ll wave our flags, line up for parades, and slap a burger on the grill this Fourth of July, but the celebration of freedom is the most important part of this day and supersedes all external celebrations. It is the one that is in our spirit, in our spiritual DNA
Methodist Heritage: Brother Stanley By Edmund Robb III Good News Archive, July-August 1976 TIME magazine, Oct. 20, 1948: “A grand old man among U.S. missionaries is a rugged Methodist preacher named Eli Stanley Jones. Baltimore-born Missionary Jones went to India in 1907, and his 35 busy years there made him
Let us not forget that when the thirteen British colonies declared their independence from England, they made a very important historic political statement. We do not need a king to govern us! We can govern ourselves! Of the freedoms that we cherish as Americans, our most precious freedom is
Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist and science popularizer, once declared, “I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label.” Strange as that assertion may sound, it expresses an idea that many of our
Editor’s Note: The Eyres have written extensively over the years on Meridian about Family, Marriage, and Parenting. More recently, they have turned their attention to grandparenting and the effective management of 3-generation families. Meridian has been pleased to partner with the Eyres in offering an online course called Grandparenting101. If