by Matt Landry | Apr 27, 2024 | General Conference Briefing
Have you ever been in a room filled with people singing with joy, energy, and excitement? This is a good description of worship at General Conference. It’s been moving to sing, pray, and worship with this global gathering of United Methodists these last several days....
by Matt Landry | Apr 25, 2024 | General Conference Briefing
“Be still and know that I am God” -Psalm 46: 10. This year’s General Conference theme is “…and know that I am God.” As you probably notice, it’s the second part of the full verse. One of the bishops on stage joked that the theme of the 2020 General Conference was the...
by Matt Landry | Apr 24, 2024 | General Conference Briefing, Pastor's Blog
It was a beautiful and positive start to the proceedings of the international gathering of The United Methodist Church called the General Conference. This is my first experience attending a General Conference, so I didn’t completely know what to expect. Sure, I knew...
by Matt Landry | Jan 15, 2024 | Pastor's Blog
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” We have all likely heard...
by Matt Landry | Dec 4, 2023 | Pastor's Blog
The KKK and White Protestantism in Indiana “The one duty we owe history is to rewrite it.” This quote by author Oscar Wilde struck me at the end of Timothy Egan’s book A Fever in the Heartland. Yet the reality is that we can’t rewrite a history we don’t know. I...
