My Call to Senior Pastoral Ministry by Tara Beth Leach

April 26, 2017

Since I can remember, I’ve had a pastor’s heart. Often times when I hear someone talk badly about the Church, I get offended in the way a sibling gets offended when someone is talking about her sister—“Hey, don’t talk about my sister like that!” I ache to see the Church live into the fullness of holiness in which she has been called. I long to see the Church lean into the power of the Spirit as she joins God on mission in this world.

Praying Around the Globe by Kim Reisman

April 24, 2017

Let your eyes wander to places you’ve never heard of, or cities you can’t pronounce. Ask God to be at work in those places. When you’ve prayed around the world, turn the globe so you can see your home region. Picture a map being zoomed in around your house or flat, and pray for God to be at work in your neighborhood, your street, your home.

Your (Global) Teenager by Elizabeth Glass Turner

Before social media and the prevalence of pop culture, it was a lot easier to enforce whatever ideologies you wanted…

Your Future Is in Your Feet! by Kelcy Steele

April 22, 2017

Don’t ask God to guide your footsteps if you’re not willing to move your feet.

Dennis F. Kinlaw: Naming and Showing that Mysterious Quality by Jerry Walls

April 20, 2017

Unfortunately, the word holiness conjures up for many people images of repressive legalism, dour dogma, and joyless judgmentalism. Much of the holiness movement seems to have forgotten that John Wesley constantly insisted that holiness and happiness are inseparable. Indeed, one Wesley’s most memorable descriptions of God was “the fountain of happiness, sufficient for all the souls he has made.”

Dennis Kinlaw reminded you of that fountain when you talked to him.

Introversion In The Kingdom Of God by Carolyn Moore

April 19, 2017

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully…

What I’ve Learned Working with Refugees and Immigrants: Interview with Josh White

April 17, 2017

A Note From The Editor: Recently Wesleyan Accent was able to chat with Youth Specialist Josh White about his role…

How Artists Do Theology: The Resurrection by Philip Tallon

April 13, 2017

Piero della Francesca gets thunderingly right what so many Christians get so stunning wrong. Raised on the first day of the week – a day any faithful Jew would understand as the first day of creation – God in Christ has begun the re-creation of this world. This work of making all things new is not complete, but it has begun.

Anxiety In Worship by Elizabeth Moyer

April 12, 2017

Someone living with an anxiety disorder (or any medical condition) that makes being in loud, dark areas or separated from family unendurable does not feel welcomed. This is not a commentary on the theology or religiosity of the “turn up the volume and dim the lights, no children allowed” movement. The concern here is how the Body of Christ meets those who would dare join in for worship.

The Celtic Cross by Tammie Grimm

April 11, 2017

With its distinctive orb that surrounds the intersecting arms that form the right angles of the Latin cross, most of…