By Brandon Brown This coming May 3-5, the Holiness Partnership is hosting their second Gathering in Kansas City, Missouri at the Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene. Keynote speakers and workshop leaders include several leaders within the Church of the Nazarene from the local to the general church. This

By Brandon Brown Those of us who live within the United States have heard the words freedom, rights, and liberty. If we have spent most of our life in the U.S. those words take on certain contextual definitions. In fact, when we hear the word freedom, we most likely

By Brandon Brown The idea that a church is a big tent has been around for many years. The Church of the Nazarene has often considered herself a big tent church, and this has been the case from the early days. Why is this and what is a big tent?

By Charles W. Christian The Holiness Partnership, a network of pastors and other leaders in the Church of the Nazarene and other parts of the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, has now produced its own magazine. It’s called The Remnant, and its very title should inform readers where this group believes they

By Brandon Brown The Holiness Partnership has released the first issue of the Magazine Remnant. As with their stated mission, the purpose of the magazine is to "promote Scriptural holiness." 1 As with many of the messages from the Holiness Partnership, there are typically holiness messages with a

By Rev. Bob Hunter In my previous article, The Holiness Partnership:  Reform movement or reactionary group?, I contend  THP must reform itself before playing a significant role in bringing the Church of the Nazarene closer to her cherished ideals. In this article, I shift concern to those The Holiness Partnership

I recently lost a database so I am re-running a few older posts as I recover them; this is from last year shortly after Chick Corea passed away. I was recently watching a video in which Chick Corea, one of the best jazz pianists ever, was explaining the difference between

I had a good friend who got married in January in the early nineteen nineties in Gainesville, Florida. We went down for several days around the time of the wedding because I was taking part in the ceremony. There were a few differences schedule from what was the traditional rehearsal

How should the rise of The Holiness Partnership (THP) be viewed? Is it a genuine reform movement potentially moving The Church of the Nazarene closer to its cherished ideals? Or, is it reactionary group attempting to resist change and promote division?.

In some ways John Wesley is an enigmatic theologian. His theology progressed through three stages which resulted in an eventual mature theology synthesized from ideas of both the Western and Eastern Church traditions. Dr. Randy Maddox explains it this way in his book Responsible Grace. Current Wesley scholarship has sought

I have fond memories of trick-or-treating as a child, especially my youngest memories of living in a town home community in Blacksburg, VA in the 1970s. I was not fond of sweets as a child (although I grew out of that) so the treats were not the totality of why