by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 13, 2023 | repentance, righteousness
Alexander Solzhenitzen was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union with his writings, including “The Gulag Archipelago” in 1973. He was exiled from Russia in 1974 for his...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 13, 2023 | Ministry
Of the many objections that some members of the Board of Ministry of The UMC lobbed at me one after another over the final three years of the nine year journey in its determination to thwart my pursuit of ordination, perhaps the most amusing was that I lacked...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 18, 2023 | ordination, story
Scandalous…… Pastors seem to be only somewhat less likely to be involved in scandals these days than anyone else…….as attested to by some statistics in a recent sexual ethics workshop for clergy. People are still people, subject to the same...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 27, 2022 | The Church, witness
from October 27, 2017- posts about UMC It is the time of year when many churches set their budgets for the following year and conduct their stewardship campaigns. Among Methodist friends I am hearing more and more people (of the ones who have chosen to remain in local...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 20, 2022 | doctrine, The Church, theology
Let Me Say That Again By Dr. Maxie Dunnam Most ministers have a preaching style with practices that are common in their delivery of the sermon. Somewhere along the way in my preaching, I developed a practice of emphasis and repetition using the recurring phrase, “Let...
