Dale M. Coulter

The story of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity is not simply a Protestant story. It is a story of the demise of white European Christianity (whether Catholic, fundamentalist, or mainline) and the rise of a new multi-ethnic Christianity that celebrates folk culture.    Continue Reading »

With the United Methodist Church dividing over same-sex marriage, Methodists must search to ground their tradition in a return to Wesleyan catholicity. Continue Reading »

Criticize Barrett's judicial record and philosophy if you wish, but leave her religion, including its charismatic dimension, alone. Continue Reading »

Opposing racism and prejudice must be part of the church’s pro-life stance. Continue Reading »

During and after the Black Death, Christianity saw the blossoming of an interior spirituality. Continue Reading »

Lent is a kind of death, the laying bare of one’s soul through fasting, prayer, and meditation. Continue Reading »

After just fifty years, the experiment in Methodist unity that is the United Methodist Church is coming to an end. Continue Reading »

The final word for the family of the suicide victim is hope. Continue Reading »

The two coalitions of the United Methodist Church are already functionally distinct denominations. Continue Reading »

The progressive and traditionalist wings of the UMC cannot live together any longer. Continue Reading »