Yesterday’s reporting here of a conversation continues with Willimon — A fellow church member countered, “My point was not that we ought to try to be a good neighbor to help them, but rather, maybe they could help us to…

With gratitude to a friend who forwarded the original piece* to me, here’s David French — I never thought it would be Christians who led the attack on fundamental Christian values, but here we are. The Book of Hebrews says “For…

Sure, we ought to love everybody and though I don’t want to turn anybody away our church I just don’t think it’s biblical to affirm people with those lifestyles. — So said a church member to Bishop William Willimon. The…

Meg Bucher’s clarifying answer – – – “Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a cold, the foal of a donkey.” (Zechariah 9:9 NIV) Palm…

My friend and colleague Angie Lee wrote the following for the Belleville (IL) UMC newsletter, and I share it here with her graciously expressed permission — When I was a seminary student, I served as a chaplain at a Retirement …

Being a United Methodist Christian, Willimon calls us all to action — “Go and do likewise” suggests missional intent. We can’t be faithful just hanging around the church; we’ve got to be out and about on the road. We are…

“We don’t have to climb up to God,” Bishop Willimon reminds us. “In Jesus Christ, God descends, condescends to us. “If we’re to be rescued, saved, plucked out of whatever ditch we’re in, it will be at the Lord’s initiative.”…

Willimon, and I’m just gonna inhale and get outa his way — God’s kingdom comes to us, not we to the Kingdom. The Kingdom’s outbreak among us is God’s doing, not the result of our good work, sincere believing, social…

“Everything about our relationship with God,” asserts Bishop Wm. Willimon, “begins and continues and ends with God in Christ slinging seed our way, stooping down to bind up our wounds, with God’s merciful resolve to be for us and for…

“Scripture has little to say about humanity’s search for God,” says Bishop Willimon. “From start to finish the Bible is a long story of God’s unrelenting, resourceful, determined search for us.” And aren’t you glad? So am I.