My buddy Jason Micheli recently wrote about the gap between the Christianities of conservative evangelical journalist David French and Episcopalian presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. He was quoting an article in which French was trying to explain t…
Home Page | The Conservative Insight I Cannot Reject
Sometimes our deepest desires can only be discovered after plodding through many miles of things we don’t want to do but that we trust to be good for us. This is called “discipline,” writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.
Mercy Not Sacrifice | The Conservative Insight I Cannot Reject
We live in an age in which actual conservative principles have been buried by tribal political discourse. There is such a thing as a valid and valuable conservatism that exists apart from things like patriarchy, white nationalism, and social Darwinist …
Home Page | Why Isn’t Perfection in Love Good Enough for Wesleyan Theology?
A laity-led spiritual renewal weekend prompts the Rev. Morgan Guyton to ask why the time-honored Methodist tradition of “being perfected in love” isn’t sufficient for the church’s core theology.
Mercy Not Sacrifice | Why Isn’t Perfection In Love Good Enough For Wesleyan Theology?
As United Methodism approaches our denominational apocalypse at the May 2020 General Conference, I’ve come across a lot of hand-wringing about our theological identity, namely that we don’t have a clear identity and that’s the whole p…
Mercy Not Sacrifice | “Let It Fall”
My therapist told me something last week that blew my mind. The Hebrew word rafa that gets translated as “Be still” in the famous Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God,” can also be translated to mean “Let it fall….
Mercy Not Sacrifice | How I Would Rewrite Desiring God’s “Joy” Tweet
A recent drama in Christian Twitter (several news cycles ago) involved the circulation of a ghastly-looking tweet put out by Calvinist pastor John Piper’s Desiring God website. It seems to expose the hideousness of the Calvinist God whose mandato…
Home Page | The Bursting of the Methodist Wineskin
Methodism needs new wineskins for what’s happening in the church because the old container of General Conference has become dysfunctional, writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.
Mercy Not Sacrifice | The Bursting Of The Methodist Wineskin
One of the most uncomfortable and least talked about parables of Jesus is his parable of the wineskins. Jesus says that new wine cannot be poured into old wineskins without bursting them; it requires new wineskins. The implications of this parable for …
Home Page | Methodism Needs a No-Fault Divorce
The Rev. Morgan Guyton thinks it’s time for United Methodism to divide for the sake of its mission in the world.
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