Tagged: connectionalism

Connectionalism as basis for United Methodist unity

September 23, 2011 at 10:30 am

For the last several weeks, I’ve been taking a rather long detour from what had been my topic for much of the summer, the sources of unity in The United Methodist Church, to talk about a related but still somewhat tangential topic: the aggregate model of unity I’ve introduced.  Today, I’m finally going to connect […]

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The US of A and All of Us

June 10, 2011 at 12:03 pm

Last week, I wrote about the extent to which postmodernity was a Western phenomenon, and the post before that, I wrote about the numbers problem in The United Methodist Church.  This week’s post sort of combines those two thoughts. As acknowledged, The United Methodist Church has some problems – problems with membership numbers, finances, structures, […]

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