Prayers for Andrew Weaver

I have just learned that Andrew Weaver passed away last weekend after an extended sickness.

Weaver was an ordained member of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, and for a while was Associate Publisher of Zion's Herald magazine (now called The Progressive Christian). Within the denomination, he was best known in recent years for his campaigning against the Bush library/institute coming to Southern Methodist University and his numerous articles, speeches, and mass e-mails strongly critiquing the United Methodist renewal movement broadly, and those of us associated with IRD/UMAction (with whom I was employed until recently) particularly.

One can go elsewhere to read the details of these controversies.

But what is more important now is prayers for his wife and other loved ones during this sad time of loss.