Opinion/Editorial

A UMNS Report by Sam Hodges The council of Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, Mass., has approved a “Marriage Equality Statement” saying that the...

By Patrick Scriven, Director of Communications & Young People's Ministries I remember being disappointed the first time I visited Mars Hill Church in Seattle. You...

"Change is harder than we often acknowledge," cautions Patrick Scriven in this commentary. While much of the conversation in The United Methodist Church has focused of problems with its polity, Scriven wonders if we are focusing enough attention on the day to day work of opening people's hearts and minds to new ways of seeing and being.

By Bailey Brawner, Elizabeth Hurd, and Maggie Ward Bailey Brawner, Elizabeth Hurd, and Maggie Ward are all M.Div students at Boston University School of Theology....

The Rev. Paul Graves uses the metaphor of chiropractic alignment to discuss the problems we are experiencing as a denomination today, and at times in our own struggles as well. He states, "alignment has everything to do with relationships we have – with our bodies, emotions, the people we live with and around, the God we perceive, and the Bible we read."

For more information on these images, visit http://bit.ly/praying-soldiers • http://bit.ly/jesus-drawing • http://bit.ly/sinking-ship • http://bit.ly/camp-worship Musings & Younger Perspectives By Megan Ernst Kilpatrick | Montage by Jesse N....

By Patrick Scriven | Director of Communications & Young People's Ministry “Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the...

By Patrick Scriven, Director of Communications & Young People's Ministries I can't remember the last time a sermon changed my mind. There, I’ve said it....

Originally posted to the PNW UMC Board of Church & Society's Facebook Page. It is 5am here and the Water Ceremony at Standing Rock Oceti...

For the fourth year in a row, more conferences paid 100% of their general-church apportionment. For Patrick Scriven, the variance in how different United Methodist jurisdictions in the U.S. met this goal raises some interesting questions.