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Failure of Leadership
By Rob Renfroe - The United Methodist Church gave the Council of Bishops two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to come up with a new solution that would stop our fighting and allow us to move forward focused on our mission of making ...
616 African University Students Graduate
By Eveline Chikwanah - MUTARE, ZIMBABWE (UMNS) A top executive of Boeing challenged the 616 Africa University graduates from 21 countries to go forth and become exemplary leaders. “Our world is in need of good principled leaders like yourself. ...
Living Aloha
By Steve Beard - In a box of 64 crayons, there are 11 shades of blue. When looking out upon the pristine waters of the Pacific Ocean crashing on the beach in Hawaii, it seems like there might be even more. It is one of the many marvels that help ...
The Words of Life
By Walter Fenton - John Wesley, like many eighteenth-century Church of England clergy, had a very high view of Scripture. He understood how the early church was profoundly shaped by it and how it in turn shaped the Christian canon of Scripture. ...
Outwitted By God
By James V. Heidinger II - Maxie Dunnam was reluctant to write God Outwitted Me: The Stories of my Life (Seedbed). He feared it might appear self-serving. And after all, he had already written some 40 books and felt that he had told the stories ...
Thinking Through Miracles
By Craig Keener - So as to disclose my perspective up front, I believe in miracles. In 2011, I published a two-volume scholarly work called Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (Baker Academic). When Good News asked me to review ...
Leadership or Manipulation
By Thomas Lambrecht - The bishops have been asked to lead. Apparently, to some bishops that means strong-arming a progressive agenda that has already been rejected by a previous General Conference. In its May gathering, the Council of Bishops - ...
In the News
Commission on a Way Forward final report being translated
PRESS RELEASE FROM COMMISSION ON THE GENERAL CONFERENCE July 9, 2018 Nashville, Tenn.: The final report of the Commission on a Way Forward to the Special Session of the General Conference in 2019 ...
Bishops Change Call for General Conference
By Thomas Lambrecht In a press release issued today, the Council of Bishops announced it is changing the call for the special General Conference to be held in St. Louis in February 2019. This change ...
