A Peculiar Prophet

Saturday, a week ago, we had a grand celebration of 200 years of Methodism in Alabama. Thanks to our North Alabama Conference Historical So...

We have had four young clergy from North Alabama attend the Young Pastors' Network that recently met in Tipp City, Ohio, at Ginghamsburg...

John Wesley famously said that the “people called Methodists” should “make all you can, save all you can, give all you can,” with the emphas...

One of our Conference priorities is to reach a new generation of Christians. Our focus is upon the 18-30 age group, those who are being call...

One of the North Alabama Conference priorities is to call and cultivate a new generation of clergy and lay leaders.  Why have we made new, y...

That the North Alabama Conference made reaching a new generation of Christian leaders a Conference Priority was prescient, according to rece...

In the past month I’ve met with dozens of United Methodists individually and in groups discussing the future of their church, their disciple...

Recently I saw a study of “successful aging.” According to the study, the number one factor in whether or not a person ages gracefully expe...

Early Methodism was organized by Wesley and Asbury on the basis of a series of questions. Wesley believed that the leader led by putting tw...

I’ve just returned from the third of our “Bishop’s Conversations on the Iraq War.” Thanks to Anne Wheeler and her team for organizing these ...

UMCYoungClergy.com has posted videos on the issue of Young Clergy and Bishop Willimon is featured in the series. Please visit this site an...

We are coming back this September with new posts from Bishop Willimon. In the meantime, we'd like to ask our readers to comment on some...

Please remember that Bishop Willimon will return with new posts in September after a busy summer of conferences and speaking engagments, s...

At our Jurisdictional Conference this July, I will be submitting an "Area Report" for our Annual Conference.  I thought that you m...

Susan Pace Hamill, a member of Tuscaloosa’s Trinity United Methodist church and a professor at the University of Alabama Law School (also a ...

One of our Annual Conference priorities is equipping and empowering a new generation of United Methodist leaders . With a median age of 59...

The women returned from the cemetery on the first Easter morning, announcing, "He is Risen!" The response of the disciples, the ch...

You probably know that important guides for the Christian faith are the Synoptic Gospels.  Synoptic is a word that comes from the Greek mean...

The theme of the 2008 General Conference was "a future with hope." Our 2008 North Alabama Annual Conference theme is "Hope....

Recently I wrote to our retired pastors asking them to share with me their best insights on the work of pastoral ministry. In their years of...