I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and later reflecting on our conversation as I walked the prayer labyrinth at Audubon Park. I want to try to relate what I think I received hopefully without too many careless h…

Rev. Morgan Guyton recounts how being open and obedient to God’s promptings has propelled his faith journey.

Some U.S. officials are using an evangelical theological doctrine – the moral depravity of “the other” – as justification for using force against Iran, writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.

[Mike Pompeo: U.S. Department of State, Public Domain] Donald Trump may not be an evangelical Christian, but his administration is filled with evangelicals who have weekly Bible studies together. One such evangelical Mike Pompeo, our Secretary of State…

I first became a licensed local pastor in July 2010. Over the course of the past decade, I have tried a whole lot of things as a pastor, and very few of them turned out the way that I planned or hoped. Thus you could say it’s been a decade of fai…

Waiting on God’s decision instead of pondering his own expectations has brought him freedom and peace this Advent, writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.

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…

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.

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 …

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.