Shows the clear connection between justice and religious education in the Black experience. The resource sets forth the cultural imperatives of ministry and the contextual nature of a public theology of religious education that connects faith formation and action in addressing profoundly difficult, unjust, and...

A step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God’s calling for your life. For students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers. The purpose of Find Your Place in God’s Mission is to help students find clarity about how God has uniquely gifted...

Reflecting on Your Leadership Journey Journal your way through a 12-week Christian leader intensive. This fully illustrated resource combines winning leadership concepts and insightful scriptural meditations in a daily journal specifically created for leaders. Use it to chart a personal leadership path and as an...

Transforming the Church so all are equal. Women have been the church, women are the church, and women will be the church. In 2020, the U.S. will commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights. The United Methodist Church celebrated the 60th anniversary of full...

This book focuses on the Msisio Dei and the promise of the kingdom of God as the center of the message of all scripture. The book is divided into ten chapters that fall into three parts: the evangelization and mission of God in the Old...

Methodists embody and experience their theology through singing the faith. The Wesleyan tradition was born in song and early Methodist people found their true identity as the children of God through singing. From the beginning, the hymns of Charles Wesley, in particular, shaped their self-understanding...

Written in French, this book by M. Flugence Nyengele tells the story of United Methodism in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Le méthodisme uni au Congo a un héritage riche dans l’engagement social motivé par l’évangile de vie et d’amour qui cherche à avancer le...

Prayerful living results in a grace-filled life. Prayer is a way we communicate with God and grow into a deeper relationship with God. In prayer, at our “listening post,” God speaks with us. In our Methodist tradition, we believe, as did the Wesleys, that prayer...

Early Methodism as seen by its adversaries and detractors This book examines eighteenth-century pamphlet attacks on early Methodism, which came from all sides—the episcopacy, clergy, other Christian groups, universities, Wesley’s ex-preachers, ex-Methodist laity, the Calvinist branch of Methodism, and the secular community. The book references...

A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching. This book is for those who are newly arrived in the pulpit: lay preachers, bivocational and local pastors, as well as recent seminary graduates. Preaching is a fundamental task of pastors. and some say...