by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Nov 15, 2019
Gender and Christianity has been in the news the last couple of weeks. Specifically the role of women in church leadership. After telling wildly popular evangelical bible teacher Beth Moore to “go home,” influential fundamentalist preacher John MacArthur clarified...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Apr 22, 2019
Your congregation has up to six, maybe even seven, different generations in it. While the oldest generation is unlikely to still be attending worship, they are still part of your congregation. And the newest generation is on its way in. Each generation is...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 18, 2019
As General Conference meets to decide the future organization of the United Methodist Church, anxiety hangs in the air. Will delegates adopt the One Church Plan, the Connectional Conference Plan or the Traditionalist Plan? Or will they defer...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Dec 16, 2016
I’m not much for reality TV. But many a Monday night I can be found in front of the TV watching aspiring vocalists sing their way into the hearts of America. Yup, I am hooked on The Voice. The live finals were last week. Like millions of other Americans, I...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jul 5, 2016
I mourned when I heard that Elie Wiesel had died. I grew up with this Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate. No, not in Auschwitz or Buchenwald, the concentration camps of his childhood experience, but in the darkened room of my 8th grade Jewish Sunday School class....
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | May 9, 2016
General Conference is a quadrennial gathering of the global United Methodist Church. But by definition, this global gathering is intensely local. Local dialects, languages, costumes, greetings, and worship practices take center stage. This convocation begs the...
