by TA Barlow | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
I have been trying to start a blog for a long time. The ideas were there, but the time was not. In the past several years I finished my doctoral work, wrote a dissertation, pastored a congregation through the pressures of COVID, stepped into full-time teaching,...
by TA Barlow | Jul 17, 2013 | Blog, Church Vitality, Leadership, Wesley
“The United Methodist Church is a denomination in crisis.” “Mainline denominations are outdated and irrelevant.” “Congregational Christianity is at its end, soon to be a thing of the past.” Or, at least, so we have been told. In...