Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’
The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season features one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1911, Alan Walker was the...
View ArticlePodcast: Dr. James Heidinger on ‘United Methodist Renewal’
This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a presentation by Dr. James V. Heidinger II, recently retired as the president and publisher of Good News, United Methodism’s flagship renewal ministry....
View ArticlePodcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by the featured speaker on this week’s MethodistThinker Podcast, Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s,...
View ArticlePodcast: Bishop James King on ‘Preaching Authority’
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop James King, episcopal leader of the United Methodist Church’s South Georgia Conference. Before being elected to the episcopacy in 2000,...
View ArticlePodcast: Bishop William R. Cannon on ‘The Whole Gospel for the Whole World’
The current MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by the late Bishop William R. Cannon, a theologian and church historian who authored more than a dozen books, including History of Christianity...
View ArticlePodcast: Terry Teykl on ‘Praying for the Lost’
The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. Dr. Teykl, an elder in the...
View ArticlePodcast: Bishop Gerald Kennedy on ‘The Marks of a Methodist’
The premiere podcast of our spring 2010 season features the leader who served for two decades as the bishop of the Los Angeles Area of The (United) Methodist Church: Bishop Gerald Kennedy. Born in...
View ArticlePodcast: Randy Maddox on Methodist ‘doctrine, spirit, discipline’
John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement (along with his brother Charles), once wrote: I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America....
View ArticlePodcast: Charles Keysor—‘How then should UM evangelicals fight?’
The third podcast of our spring season features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News....
View ArticlePodcast: Aldersgate Day address by Donald English
Today (May 24) is observed by members of the Methodist and Wesleyan family as Aldersgate Day, commemorating a pivotal event in life of John Wesley — an experience of God’s grace that began his...
View ArticlePodcast—Maxie Dunnam: ‘Pastor as Prophet, Priest, Evangelist’
The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a...
View ArticlePodcast — Billy Abraham: ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’
The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season features Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North...
View ArticlePodcast: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris, currently interim president of Atlanta’s Gammon Theological Seminary. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was...
View ArticlePodcast: Rob Renfroe on ‘The Deeper Issues of Methodist Renewal’
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by the Rev. Rob Renfroe, president of Good News, the flagship renewal ministry of the United Methodist Church. Robert Lane Renfroe earned a B.A....
View ArticlePodcast: Billy Graham at the 1980 UM Congress on Evangelism
The final MethodistThinker Podcast of 2010 features an address by the foremost American evangelist of the 20th century, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, speaking at the 1980 United Methodist Congress on...
View ArticleIntroducing the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast
The MethodistThinker Podcast has returned from hiatus with a new, shorter format. Rather than featuring longer-form presentations, as it has for the past two years, the refashioned podcast is only five...
View ArticlePodcast — Bishop Lindsey Davis: Will the UMC have the courage to do what...
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Bishop Lindsey Davis of the Kentucky Annual Conference says the United Methodist Church must repent of its missional lethargy and re-commit itself...
View ArticlePodcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General...
View ArticlePodcast: Rob Renfroe on ‘The Truth About God’
This edition of the Methodist Thinker Mini-Podcast features a teaching excerpt from the Rev. Rob Renfroe, pastor of discipleship at The Woodlands (Texas) United Methodist Church and the president of...
View ArticlePodcast: Mark Tooley, author of ‘Taking Back the United Methodist Church’
The final podcast of our spring season features a conversation with Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol...
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