Methodism in Recovery: Renewing Mission, Reclaiming History, Restoring Health

Broken bodies mend. Depressed minds heal. Storm-tossed cities rebuild. Troubled institutions recover. Churches experience renewal. So why not the Methodist Church? This book confronts the facts and invokes the Spirit. It will explore the multiple meaning of recovery and the denomination's prospect for recovering. It will take seriously the possibility that recovery of Methodism may not require—or include—the survival of The United Methodist Church as a denomination. That is part of the myst...