Kenneth L. Carder

Bishop Carder applies careful scholarship in exploring traditional beliefs of United Methodists and the challenges which await them. Taking his clues from the nineteenth century religious and social reform efforts of John Wesley, Bishop Carder challenges the false idols worshiped by so many today: success, consumerism, hedonism, nationalism, individualism, rationalism, racism, sexism, violence, and institutional religion. Calling for a living belief in the one true God, Carder notes that the god or God one worships forms the essence of who one is.… (más)