I will definitely watch this film about the end of the Odyssey. But almost every detail sounds wrong. rogerebert.com/festivals/tiff…

Epic yawn

Young, restless, and ... hearts strangely warmed? "Wesley is fire now." christianitytoday.com/2024/09/wesley…

A California pastor is finally home apnews.com/article/china-…

Gloo is holding its second annual church hackathon. Here's Christianity Today's report on how it went last year: christianitytoday.com/2024/02/ai-chu…

Almost a quarter of Protestant pastors refused to say who they're going to vote for in November. In 2020, only 4 percent declined to answer. In 2016, only 3 percent. christianitytoday.com/2024/09/trump-…

The story of the birth of the Global Methodist Church, as seen through the life of Keith Boyette, the man who made it possible. My latest reporting from Christianity Today: christianitytoday.com/2024/09/global…

Every issue of Christianity Today, I roundup news stories of Christians around the world. Here's one from Sept/Oct:

What a new Methodist denomination absolutely had to have to come into existence was a legal expert. It needed a minister who was also a lawyer. It had one. His name was Keith Boyette. christianitytoday.com/2024/09/global…

Ministers in an accountability group with scholar and professor Vince Bantu have come forward with claims he is secretly practicing polygamy. Bantu says they are lying. My reporting for Christianity Today: christianitytoday.com/2024/09/vince-…

These Christians have not given up on North Korea christianitytoday.com/2024/09/north-…

Federal court rules that a Georgia jail was wrong to discriminate against a minister who preached that baptism is necessary to salvation. religionclause.blogspot.com/2024/09/10th-c…

From Christianity Today's daily email newsletter, how I think about reporting bad news as a journalist and an evangelical:

The only United Methodist seminary that is historically Black has a plan to grow enrollment from 20 to 200 in five years. umnews.org/en/news/gammon…

When you read Rene Girard as a how-to guide for scapegoating politico.com/news/magazine/…

“What drove Nixon? Most biographies touch on the paranoia, the self-doubt, and the insecurities that both fueled his ambition and motivated his worst instincts. But a new religious biography digs deeper” Nice review of my book from Daniel Darling: dandarling.substack.com/p/the-complex-…

Checking in on the Global Methodist’s first General Conference this morning in Costa Rica. If you’re here say hello!

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The Global Methodists now have a constitution, passed by the convening General Conference