A Peculiar Prophet

John Wesley preached “practical Christianity.” Few United Methodist practices illustrate our practical Christianity more vividly than our ...

This week, I return to the series of messages focusing on some of our distinctive Wesleyan beliefs from my book on that subject. No mo...

Our Lord Jesus preached peace, but “not as the world gives.” Peaceful Jesus was from the first a disturber of the status quo. Alas, too of...

For the next few weeks I’ll be focusing on some of our distinctive Wesleyan beliefs from my book on that subject. We Believe that Faith ...

For the next few weeks I’ll be focusing on some of our distinctive Wesleyan beliefs from my book on that subject. We see God’s grace a...

A Christmas story, can’t remember where I heard it, but I tell it to you as you begin your own celebration of Christmastide. There was a...

Christmas is a time of giving. One of the great gifts of the North Alabama Conference is Urban Ministry. This year we celebrated the 35th ...

Pastor Christopher Herbert is leading some dramatic changes at Union Chapel UMC. Most of our small membership churches are in serious declin...

“The North Alabama Conference is a model of how to respond to a natural disaster and how to keep responding over the long haul.” That’s what...

It’s a story so strange we could not have dreamed it up by ourselves, this story of how God was incarnate in Jesus the Christ. An embarrassi...

S.T. Kimbrough, a great treasure of our Conference, is the foremost living scholar on the hymns of Charles Wesley. S. T. called my attention...

The Reverend Mary Bendall has been leading a remarkable ministry at Tuscaloosa First. She and Ken Dunivant are working a remarkable transfro...

After serving well as a member of the Bishop’s Cabinet, Lori Carden was appointed to our beloved but troubled congregation in Columbiana. Lo...

Paula Calhoun is leading an amazing congregational relocation, a virtual new church start at Stepping Stone UMC. A beginning to Paula's ...