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The Term: A Word for the Campus by the Campus is a journal of preaching and worship for collegiate ministry. Written by collegiate ministers, The Term provides a place for sharing timely and beneficial homiletical, liturgical, and reflective resources for collegiate ministry by utilizing collegiate ministers' own work. Issued semiannually, this journal offers resources that target upcoming liturgical, academic, and social occasions relevant to each academic term. Contributors: A. Elaine Crawford, Preston Davis, Mark Forrester, Jeff Hinton, Narcie Jeter, Bryan Langlands, Deborah Lewis, Natalie McLean, Laura Kirkpatrick, Timothy Moore, Shirley Oskamp, Rick Pinkston, and Ron Robinson.

Unmasking Racism is an experientially based, multi-generational, interdisciplinary, contextually diverse, and inclusive take on racism from a socio-historical, ecclesial, and theological perspective.This work offers an experientially based, multi-generational, interdisciplinary, contextually diverse, and inclusive take on racism from a socio-historical, ecclesial, and theological perspective. The constructive arm of the project explores what it would mean to consider "love" as a strategic commitment to exposing systemic racism at every level of Christian faith and practice: the church, the community, and the academy. Our text offers action items within each chapter to help readers (whether scholars, clergy, or laypersons) to visualize next steps within their respective contexts. For the writers, each chapter is foregrounded in reflections from their own individual and collective experiences wrestling with the sin of racism within various ministerial contexts. The aim of this book is to invite readers to take a step with the writers, a step toward adopting a set of actions or series of processes unmasking racism. This book invites its readers to explore what it would mean for persons of faith to consider love as a commitment to justice, a commitment to understand the experiences of those dis-empowered by systemic racism and how we can fulfill this commitment by exposing racism at every level of Christian faith and practice in society.

"This collection of essays reflects the plenary presentations from the Fourteenth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies held at Pembroke College, Oxford, August 2018. These essays address the ways revival, reform, and revolution have manifested themselves in the Wesleyan heritage around the world."

A new Black theology of liberation that addresses the needs of people crushed under the prevailing systems of racial, gender, and heterosexist oppression in America Allen. Jones. Varick. Lee. Douglas. Truth. Foote. Bethune. Lane. Holsey. Lawson-names of famous Black Methodist leaders who challenged racism and sexism of both American society and the church of their generation. These are people who called both the nation and the church to live into the vision for which it had been created and to loose the bonds of oppression. Once enslaved themselves, and descendants of slaves, they were determined to build denominations and colleges such that future generations would be prepared to assume leadership in an idealized and integrated society. These Black Methodist leaders from the AME, AMEZ, CME, and The UMC provided the theological, socio-economic, and political groundwork that encouraged, sustained, and mobilized African Americans during slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Power Movements. And while their impact of the work in the fight against both racism and sexism in the church and general society is well documented, what often goes unnoticed is the impact that these leaders had on two of the greatest movements to affect the landscape of the Academy-Black Theology of Liberation and Womanist Theology. What is also forgotten is that two of greatest theologians, James H. Cone and Jacquelyn Grant, were products of the AME Church. Furthermore, Cone, the doctoral advisor of Grant, was also greatly influenced by leaders of Black Methodists for Church Renewal, a Black advocacy group of The United Methodist Church.While it is important to remember great people of the past, it is also critical to recall the lessons that Black Methodists have taught us with regard to the fight against racial and gender injustice. This century's Black Methodists, whether AME, AMEZ, CME or UMC (BMCR), must find new ways to contend with racial, sexist, and heterosexist injustice. Like their Black Methodist forefathers and foremothers, they must find ways to provide theological and political responses to movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. The authors of this volume contend that there is no better time to assume the mantle of Black Methodist prophetic leadership than now as the theological academy and the church celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cone's groundbreaking book, A Black Theology of Liberation. With the passing of Dr. Cone and Dr. Jacquelyn Grant there is no better way, especially in an era of Me-Too, than to highlight their accomplishments in the fight against racial and gender injustice.

Shows the clear connection between justice and religious education in the Black experience.

"This book walks through the heart of history, theology, and practices of early Methodist by using select primary source material and instructive diagrams. In addition Germano summarizes the spiritual, historical, and sociological context of Wesley's England in order to help readers understand primary themes of Wesleyan theology and practice. At the end of each chapter, discussion questions and set-off key principles highlight core concepts and make the content easy to embrace and comprehend."

El propósito de esta obra es relacionar a Juan Wesley con los dos reformadores más importantes, Lutero y Calvino, para explorar lo que Wesley incorporó y rechazó de ellos en su teología.

This book documents how important the participatory economic Trinitarian dimension is for understanding Wesley's theology and how it affects his ecclesiology and soteriology.

This small group resource equips chaplains, college ministers, and spiritual leaders, to help young adults learn and cultivate spiritual practices that will lead to abundant living despite the anxieties and pressures of college life.

We need mentors as defined biblically in this work--those who help us listen to God. Necesitamos mentores como se definen bíblicamente en este trabajo, es decir, personas que nos ayudan escuchar a Dios.

Join the movement and go to make disciples in an ever-changing world. Suitable for a 6-week study. Contributions by Kim Cape, Kenneth H. Carter Jr., Robert Farr, Grant Hagiya, Scott J. Jones, J. Michael Lowry, Robert Schnase, and Hope Morgan Ward.

La mayordomía no se trata de lo que tenemos, sino de lo que damos a los demás.

"Can women successfully pastor large membership churches? In 2006 at an international meeting of United Methodist clergywomen, this question was raised about how women were breaking gender stereotypes to serve in churches with 1,000 or more members. Two years later, the Lead Women Pastors Project was launched with 64 clergywomen by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. Breaking through the stained glass ceiling: Women pastoring large churches emerged from the project which sought to affirm, empower, and nurture women who pastor large churches in the UMC and is a compilation of stories from some of the clergywomen participants."--Back cover.

In The Renewal of United Methodism: Mission, Ministry and Connectionalism, a distinguished group of United Methodist seminary professors celebrate the life and work of Russell E. Richey by presenting essays highlighting important themes around which much of his scholarly research and writing have focused: ministry and mission; denominationalism and connectionalism; ecclesiology and evangelism; and doctrine and theology. The contributors to this volume share the conviction that the genuine renewal of United Methodism is more likely to result from careful attention to and serious engagement with the work of the church's scholars and teachers, exemplified by Russ Richey, than from the proposals of organizational consultants and management experts from the business world. By both precept and example, Russ has throughout his long and distinguished career served as both mentor and model not only for his students but also for his colleagues in both church and academy.

Distancing himself from liberals and conservatives but also pointing to the uselessness of a middle way, Rieger explores the theology of grace in situations of human pressure. Following John Wesley in his move to consider the 'works of mercy' as part of the means of grace, the author proposes to us a relational concept of grace that will prosper in dialogue and solidarity with those in distress, the oppressed 'other' who make present the gracious 'Other.'

Drawing on Wesleyan themes of grace and responsibility, Watching Over One Another In Love provides step-by-step guidance for creating a covenant-based ministry assessment process that holds persons accountable for fruit-bearing faith. At the same time, it enables the experience of ministry assessment to be edifying for both the church and the pastor.

Jesus became human so that we might become divine. Charles Wesley was a portrait painter, but he used words, not oils, as his medium. As the cofounder of Methodism, he was a preacher, poet, and musician. But, above all, Charles Wesley was an artist--a lyricist--and we still sing his hymns today. Yet in his artistry, Wesley aimed at more than pretty words and easy rhyme. Steeped in his own meditations on scripture and through his use of metaphor, Wesley helps us answer Jesus's timeless question: "Who do you say that I am?" This book looks at ten ways Wesley can help us answer that question, so that our hearts can be strangely warmed with the fire of faith. For Wesley, lyrics were not ends in themselves but a way for us to experience Jesus in our daily living. Ten Metaphors Wesley Uses to Describe Jesus and His Work Human and Divine Great High Priest Lamb of GodPhysician of SoulsFont of Our SalvationGood Shepherd CaptainLion of Judah AdvocateFriend and Lover

Within the pages of this book, an international group of Methodist scholars are united in the belief that another church and another world are not only necessary but possible. Holiness traditions, even though at times addressing matters too narrowly and at other times to triumphantly, are in agreement that the status quo in both church and world can be improved upon significantly. The question is not whether but how does this happen and how far does it go. Amidst ongoing discussions of reforms, reformations, and revolutions, this volume argues that comprehensive transformations are afoot. Our expectations are not built on shallow optimism or wide-spread beliefs in progress; they are built on evangelical expectations and holiness histories as they have shaped up since the beginnings of evangelical holiness movements. Recent decades, in particular, have rekindled broader perspectives that push beyond reductionistic focuses on individuals, closed communities, or particular church bodies. The hope of the gospel that is at the heart of the Methodist evangelical holiness traditions needs to be tested and verified in concrete transformations, which will be spelled out in the chapters of this book.

Methodists invested significantly on both sides of the Civil War. The sectional and racial commitments, matured in the years studied, have stayed vibrant in two (now jurisdictioned) Methodisms. Understanding but not excusing our racial divides. How might United Methodism confront its continuing racial dilemmas and grasp how and why Methodism came to be so divided-organizationally, geo-politically, structurally, attitudinally-precisely where it proved most successful, namely in its heartland states stretching west from the Delmarva across middle America? -- Publisher.

New Room Books is an imprint of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church

Prophetic Voices of African and Asian Women Theologians.

The year 2020 commemorates the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights in the U. S. The United Methodist Church celebrated the 60th anniversary of full clergy rights for women in 2016, and there are about 15,000 clergywomen serving The United Methodist Church today. Yet women’s voices have been and continue to be marginalized. The contributors to this book prove that women excel at leadership and challenge traditional leadership models as they seek to reconstruct patriarchal gender paradigms.Contributors:M. Kathryn ArmisteadCristian De La RosaMotoe Yamada FoorYoungsook Charlene KangOuida LeeAlka LyallConnie Semy P. MellaKaren P. OlivetoHiRho Y. ParkAnita PhillipsVictoria RebeckRosemarie Wenner