CM Happenings

The Happenings articles are commentary on the United Methodist Church.  They were sent originally as e-blasts to leaders in the United Methodist Church and interested persons.   They are arranged by year and subject matter.

2012

• Feb. 9, 2012 How Much do we Trust our Bishops?
• Feb. 3, 2012 General Conference, Restructuring, and the Future of the Church

2011

• Dec. 6, 2011 Call to Action, Reform, and Diversity
• Nov. 21, 2011 America, Thanksgiving, and the Pessimistic Index
• Nov. 6, 2011 The Call to Action and Seminary Reform
• Sept. 24, 2011 Struggling for the Soul of the Church
• Sept. 7, 2011 Could we Learn from the Evangelical Covenant Church?
• Aug. 22, 2011 Liberalism's Defective Doctrine of the Church
• April 21, 2011 The End of Christianity in the West (part I)
• April 1, 2011 On Hell
• March 11, 2011 Theological Orientation and Renewal in the Church
• Feb. 10, 2011 Retired Bishops Want to Reverse Church's Stand on Homosexuality
• Jan. 21, 2011 Seminaries and the Decline of the Church (II) - Is There Hope?

2010

• Sept. 20, 2010 Jesus Is Lord And The Muslims
• Sept. 12, 2010 Judicial Council Decision 1032 And Exploiting Ambiguity
• Aug. 30, 2010 An Evangelical Approach To Reform (II)
• Aug. 22, 2010 An Evangelical Approach To Reform
• July 4, 2010 Call To Action And The Agencies
• May 24, 2010 The Ministry Study And Guaranteed Appointments
• April 27, 2010 The Board Of Global Ministries And Renewal
• April 14, 2010 United Methodist Restructuring - Can We Move Beyond the 1960s
• April 1, 2010 Restructuring, Superboards, Church and Society, and Health Care
• March 5, 2010 On a Wholistic Church
• March 22, 2010 Restructuring and United Methodist Decline - Learning from the Past - The Methodist-EUB Merger
• March 10, 2010 Can UMC Break Out of its Institutional Mold
• Feb. 4, 2010 Happy 225th Anniversary, American Methodism (Part 3)
• Feb. 22, 2010 Happy 225th Anniversary, American Methodism (Part 4)
• Dec. 3, 2010 On Using the Word 'Progressive'
• Nov. 13, 2010 United Methodists And The Supernatural
• Oct. 5, 2010 What Might United Methodist Reform Look Like
• Oct. 17, 2010 Methodist Bishop Calls For Recovery Of Supernatural
• Jan. 2, 2010 Seminaries and the Decline of the Church (I)
• Jan. 19, 2010 Happy 225th Anniversary, American Methodism (Part 2)
• Jan. 10, 2010 Happy 225th Anniversary, American Methodism (Part 1)
• Jan. 1, 2010 URBANA 09 and Winning the World for Christ

2009

• Sept. 25, 2009 The Bible Belt, Revivalism, And Amendment 1
• Sept. 13, 2009 On Being Generic Evangelical
• Aug. 30, 2009 Full Communion Lutherans, UMS And Homosexuality
• Aug. 19, 2009 Diversity, Or Not So Much
• July 9, 2009 In Praise Of Calvinism
• July 31, 2009 A House Divided
• July 20, 2009 The Imploding Episcopalians
• June 24, 2009 How about getting rid of some seminaries
• June 15, 2009 Megachurches And America's Church Membership
• June 11, 2009 Latest Report on Megachurches
• May 27, 2009 Western Civilization, Missions, And Methodism (Part 2)
• May 21, 2009 Western Civilization, Missions, And Methodism (Part 1)
• May 9, 2009 Problems With New Church Starts
• April 7, 2009 Here Come the Atheists
• April 22, 2009 Global Ministries And Mission Society
• March 4, 2009 There is Power in the Blood
• March 26, 2009 Good News or Perhaps Not
• March 19, 2009 Inclusiveness and Membership Decline
• Feb. 20, 2009 On Prayers in Jesus Name
• Feb. 11, 2009 600 New Churches for United Methodism
• Dec. 2, 2009 Three Simple Rules (Part 4)
• Dec. 15, 2009 Ecumenism And The Manhattan Declaration
• Nov. 19, 2009 Three Simple Rules (Part 3)
• Nov. 10, 2009 United Methodism's Three (Perhaps Not So) Simple Rules (Part 2)
• Oct. 7, 2009 What About Those Local Pastors
• Oct. 29, 2009 United Methodism's Three Simple Rules (Part 1)
• Oct. 20, 2009 British Methodists And Inclusivism
• Jan. 30, 2009 Week of Christian Unity Comes and Goes

2008

• Sept. 23, 2008 United Methodists And The Africans Part II
• Sept. 20, 2008 United Methodism And The Africans Part I
• Aug. 29, 2008 Doctrine And The State Of The Church Part II
• Aug. 18, 2008 Doctrine And The State Of The Church
• Aug. 10, 2008 Homosexual Marriage a Civil Right
• July 22, 2008 Do United Methoidsts Live Longer
• July 1, 2008 Slavery, homosexuality, and 'not being of one mind'
• June 9, 2008 Extremism And The Mainstream Part II
• June 5, 2008 Extremism And The Mainstream
• June 19, 2008 Shall we repent for liberal theology
• June 12, 2008 Was it worth the effort
• May 24, 2008 General Conference Legislation - Group 2 Church and Society 2
• April 8, 2008 More on General Conference Legislation - Group 3 - Conferences
• April 19, 2008 More On General Conference Lelgislation - Group 10 - Judicial Administration - Group 11 - Local Church
• April 19, 2008 More On General Conference Lelgislation - Group 12 - Ministry And Higher Education - Group 13 - Superintendency
• April 16, 2008 More On General Conference Lelgislation - Group 8 - Global Ministries - Group 9 - Independent Commissions
• April 15, 2008 More On General Conference Legislation - Group 6 - Faith And Order - Group 7 - General Administration
• April 11, 2008 More On General Conference Legislation - Group 4 - Discipleship - Group 5 - Financial Administration
• April 1, 2008 Heading Toward General Conference
• March 3, 2008 By What Name Shall We Baptize
• Feb. 22, 2008 Doctrine and the State of the Church
• Feb. 11, 2008 United Methodists and Poverty
• Dec. 14, 2008 The Double Standard and the Bishops
• Dec. 1, 2008 United Methodists, Alcohol, and Loss of the High Ground
• Nov. 24, 2008 On America and God's Blessing
• Nov. 11, 2008 United Methodists and the Election
• Oct. 26, 2008 On Using The Name United Methodist - Part II
• Oct. 24, 2008 On Using The Name United Methodist - Part I
• Oct. 14, 2008 United Methodism And The Africans Part IV
• Oct. 10, 2008 United Methodists And The Africans Part III - Hopeful Signs
• Jan. 29, 2008 Fighting the Caterpillar Corporation

2007

• Sept. 27, 2007 Political Fasting
• Sept. 22, 2007 Presbyterians, United Methodists, And Church Membership
• Aug. 8, 2007 The Importance Of Significant Large Churches
• Aug. 31, 2007 The Importance Of Listening
• Aug. 17, 2007 Shall We Name the Name
• Aug. 10, 2007 Is Methodism a Movement
• July 3, 2007 Methodist Institutionalism And The Seminaries
• July 12, 2007 Atheist Books - A Challenge For The Church
• Dec. 6, 2007 On Using the Word 'Evangelical'
• Dec. 30, 2007 Progressives and Optimism
• Dec. 2, 2007 New Hope for the National Council of Churches
• Nov. 21, 2007 In Defense Of United Methodism
• Nov. 18, 2007 MFSA Reaches 100
• Nov. 10, 2007 Whatever Happened to Marriage
• Oct. 6, 2007 The Ministry Study A Bureaucratic Maze
• Oct. 30, 2007 Holy Conferencing And Civil Discourse