Blaise Pascal wrote: “How I hate these stupidities: of not believing in the Eucharist, etc. If the Gospel is true, if Jesus Christ is God, where is the difficulty?” (Pensées §199). Pascal’s point was that if one accepts the rather incredible premise that there is a God who loves the
How Was I Supposed to Fulfill the Lord’s Calling to Me If He Wasn’t Even Going to Help? In 2019, I was called to serve a mission in Singapore, the island-country in Southeast Asia that borders Malaysia. I was to learn Malay, one of the official languages of the country.
Do United Methodist congregations own their buildings? What is a trust? Can the United Methodist trust be revoked? Is there a legal process for disaffiliating from the UM Church separate from what is in the Book of Discipline? When might it make sense to use the legal process, rather than the Discipline’s process? When