Methodism; Ministry | Talbot Davis

The Idol Of Clergy Self-Care

This post is not likely to make me many friends in United Methodism. But here goes: the current mantra in UMC circles of "clergy self-care" has moved from concern to caricature to idol. Over the last couple of years in my Annual Conference, we have heard lectures,...

Cyrus, Pop Music, & Prevenient Grace

Methodists have an interesting term we call prevenient grace.Coined by John Wesley, the founder of the movement in the 1700s that ultimately became the Methodist church, prevenient grace literally meanes "the grace that goes before." God's grace is at work in people's...