The modern church cannot hold. Not attendance or budgets or programs but people. In many congregations there is a growing sense of ecclesial thinness: communities that gather but do not form; worship that inspires but does not sustain; institutions that speak of belonging but often cannot bear the weight of people’s stories, wounds, callings and questions.
Read MoreThe church’s crisis of formation is not simply a crisis of discipleship programs. It is a crisis of imagination—a failure to see holiness as the Spirit‑empowered way of being human in the world God loves. Wesleyan theology has always insisted that sanctification is not an escape from creation but the healing of creaturely life.
Read MoreIn Global Methodist circles, we are still rejoicing over the glory and grace that bathed our recent General Conference (GC) in Johannesburg. Even for those of us watching from afar, the beauty of holiness was palpable.
Read MoreAcross the Christian landscape, people are naming the same ache: life feels too fast, too loud, too fragmented. Churches are busy but thin. Leaders are exhausted. Communities feel unmoored.
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