I’m a historian by training. It is what I do and how I think. This training orients my own spiritual formation as well. I…
Category: Accents of the Academy
Priscilla Hammond ~ Living a Life of Advent Light: When a Wreath Is More Than a Wreath
Many churches are currently setting up Advent wreaths to mark the weeks leading up to Christmas. The four candles that encircle the wreath illuminate…
Suzanne Nicholson ~ Suffering through Thanksgiving
This is the time of year when advertisements inundate us with images of happy families gloriously celebrating the holidays. Women in velvet dresses clink…
Priscilla Hammond ~ Remembering: Weigh Well and Consider
Before people used Enneagram types or extroversion temperaments to describe themselves, personalities were described using ancient medical terms: sanguine, melancholy, phlegmatic, and choleric. Maybe…
Kevin Watson ~ On Pragmatism, Integrity, and Faith
The Rev. Dr. Kevin M. Watson delivers his sermon in the William R. Cannon Chapel at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, on…
Andrew C. Thompson ~ The Virtue of Pastoral Leadership
Note from the Editor: This week at Wesleyan Accent, as we scan, with grief, ongoing news from seeker-sensitive Protestant megachurches and Roman Catholic dioceses,…
Suzanne Nicholson ~ Leaders in the Bible (Who Happen to Be Women)
Note from the Editor: This week at Wesleyan Accent, as we scan, with grief, ongoing news from seeker-sensitive Protestant megachurches and Roman Catholic dioceses,…
Maxie Dunnam ~ Public Confession and Repentance
Note from the Editor: This week at Wesleyan Accent, as we scan, with grief, ongoing news from seeker-sensitive Protestant megachurches and Roman Catholic dioceses,…
Tammie Grimm ~ There I Plant My Foot: Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, and John Wesley
Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, and John Wesley: One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong. If…
Justus Hunter ~ Practicing Discernment: Thy Will Be Done
There are two difficulties with our prayer, “Thy will be done.” We fret over the first, but the second is far more dangerous. “What…