United Methodist Book of Worship Now Online
The United Methodist Publishing House has finally made the Book of Worship available on-line through the General Board of Discipleship: http://www.gbod.org/worship/book-of-worship I am grateful. UPDATE: The URL has changed. http://www.umcdiscipleship.org/worship/book-of-worship I’m all for the publishing house making a buck, but certain products of the church should be made freely available to all, among them: the official worship services of the church the Discipline (an official public record of the church’s faith and law) Judicial Council decisions (an official public record of the church’s court decisions) When I say “freely available,” I don’t mean that the publishing house shouldn’t charge for the dead-tree editions of these resources. Paper, ink and labor all cost money. What I mean is that the publishing house should not treat these official documents as their own possession. The words are products of the general church. They should not be hi...