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A Pastoral Word on Juvenile Justice in the Philippines

There is a recurring temptation in Philippine public discourse to reach for the simplest solution to the most complex problem. Crime is rising among children aged 10 to 15. The proposed remedy? Make them legally accountable adults before they have finished losing their baby teeth. It is the legislative equivalent of treating a fever by smashing the thermometer.

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Entire Sanctification Is Purity of Intention

If you want to clear a room of Methodist theologians quickly, mention “entire sanctification” and then sit back. Half will defend it with the zeal of a prosecutor; the other half will begin slowly inching toward the exit. The doctrine has been abused so thoroughly — by those who claimed it made them immune to correction, and by those who silently abandoned it out of embarrassment — that recovering its original contours requires a kind of theological archaeology.

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The Means of Grace Are Not Optional Extras

Modern spirituality loves the spontaneous. We want encounters, breakthroughs, mountaintop experiences — the burning-bush variety of religion. Wesley, who had a perfectly good burning-bush moment at Aldersgate in 1738, spent the rest of his life insisting that most of the Christian life happens nowhere near a burning bush. It happens at the table, at the font, on the knees, in the gathered community, in the open Bible.

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Why Wesleyans Cannot Stop Talking About Prevenient Grace

There is a peculiar temptation in evangelical Christianity to turn conversion into a human achievement. We speak of the moment we “decided for Christ” with the confidence of someone who found a great bargain at the market — as though salvation were a transaction we initiated and God graciously honored. John Wesley would have smiled at the sincerity and winced at the theology.

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What about Trinity Sunday? A Wesleyan Perspective

Trinity Sunday holds a profound place in the Wesleyan tradition, serving as more than just a theological checkpoint. For John Wesley and the early Methodist movement, the doctrine of the Trinity was not merely an abstract puzzle to be solved, but a vital framework for understanding the Christian life and the experience of God’s grace.