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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald
In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarized world, where the obituary many feared they'd be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to encapsulate the historical moment we're in: that of Aleksei Navalny.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
lastwordonsports.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald
March is here and that means one thing; the 2024 USL Championship season is on the horizon. Expansion teams, new look rosters, rebuilds. It has been a busy offseason for team’s in the USL Championship as we head into the 2024 campaign. With the season set to kick off Saturday, March 9th, Last Word on Soccer takes a look at three teams to keep an eye on this upcoming season.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
lastwordonsports.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald
There is no denying the ever growing importance of data and analytics in professional soccer. In today’s sport’s world, being able to quickly and easily track player performance and activity is crucial to both the development of players and the success of the team. Products like the Apple Watch and the WHOOP bracelet have capitalized on these trends in recent years. Wearable products that allow user’s track their exercise and cardio.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald |Jake Owensby
Many Christian traditions have much to say about the relationship between liturgy and life. Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, and Anglicans together have a multitude of liturgical theologians and thus a rich treasury of wisdom from which to draw in describing the liturgy-life relationship. Do Wesleyans have insights about how liturgy and life in the world outside the weekly assembly might relate? Surely we have a goodly heritage in this area, beginning with the poetics of Charles Wesley.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | Jake Owensby |William McDonald |William Mcdonald
The movers had finished unloading the van after sunset. Joy and I had gotten up early to get a jump on the unpacking. I was desperately searching for the coffee maker when the phone rang. It was our realtor C-. He said, “I need to ask you a question.”Thinking that he needed information to complete some form or other, I kept tearing open boxes and said, “Well sure. What’s up?” It hadn’t occurred to me that C- was a member of my new congregation, not as our realtor.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | Michael Beck |William McDonald |William Mcdonald
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” Matthew 18:20 At Wildwood UMC the core values are described as the three G’s… Gather, Grow, Go. Gather refers to cultivating deep worshipful Christian community. Grow refers to maturing as disciples who seek to love God and neighbor, or holiness. Go refers to mission, or sentness into the world. The “go team” is focused primarily on cultivating fresh expressions of church.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald |Michael Beck
This article is the thirteenth article in a series we're calling "A Good and Joyful Thing: A series on liturgical spirituality." We hope this series takes you on an imaginative “travelogue” at various worship services in a local United Methodist church where the liturgy is treasured.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | Rebekah Simon-Peter |Jake Owensby |William McDonald |William Mcdonald
As I worshiped on a recent Sunday morning, I couldn’t help but ponder the question of whether this church, which I’d been attending for over a decade, was ready for rebuilding. I genuinely appreciate this church. It boasts an excellent downtown location and is filled with wonderful people. However, it has experienced numerous changes: the dismissal of long-time musicians, a well-liked pastor with a hidden addiction, frequent pastoral appointment changes, and the pandemic.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | Jake Owensby |Rebekah Simon-Peter |William McDonald |William Mcdonald
Mack McCarter envisions a world where “every single child, no matter their age, can be safe and loved.”[1] That vision led him in 1994 to leave traditional congregational ministry in Texas and to found Community Renewal International in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Two decades of church work had convinced him that cities and towns are essentially a web of relationships. When the relationships fray, those communities begin to decline.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
ministrymatters.com | William McDonald |William Mcdonald
This article is the eleventh article in a series we're calling "A Good and Joyful Thing: A series on liturgical spirituality." We hope this series takes you on an imaginative “travelogue” at various worship services in a local United Methodist church where the liturgy is treasured.
