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Happiness vs. Holiness
By Rob Renfroe- If you were to summarize one rather stark section of the Apostle Paul’s message to the Corinthians, it might be: God loves you and has a dangerous plan for your life. He reminds the congregation that he has “been in prison more ...
Heroes and Heroines of Our Faith
By Jeff Walton- More than 250 million Christians are suffering persecution of some kind around the world today, according to Baroness Caroline Cox, founder of the U.K.-based Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Many live under the oppression of ...
Is There a Way Forward?
By Walter Fenton- For nearly nine months now the Commission on a Way Forward has been meeting behind closed doors in an attempt to fulfill two almost impossible tasks: producing a plan to definitively resolve the deep disagreement over The United ...
Poet of the Valiant Heart
By Faith McDonnell- In 1989, People magazine reviewed Ratushinskaya’s prison memoir, Grey is the Color of Hope. The review recounted how the then-exiled-in-the-West poet had been arrested in 1983 at the age of 29 and sentenced to seven years’ hard ...
Doctrine and the People called Methodist
By James V. Heidinger II- Debate has been renewed in recent months about the role of doctrine for United Methodists. What is the place, for example, of orthodox Christian doctrine in our church? For years we have heard that we are not a creedal ...
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The Man Came Around: RIP Johnny Cash
In memory of Johnny Cash who died on this date in 2003, we reprint this obituary. By Steve Beard “We’ve seen the secret things revealed by God/ And we heard what the angels had to say/ Should ...
UMCOR Cleaning Kits for Houston
According to the Texas Annual Conference Disaster Response team, the best way to help victims of Hurricane Harvey are as follows. Monetary donations: These can be made directly to UMCOR Domestic ...
Texas floods force rescue of many
By Shannon Martin and Sam Hodges Aug. 27, 2017 | HOUSTON (UMNS) United Methodists ministers have been among those rescued from rising waters in Houston as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to bring ...
Harvey floods hit Houston churches
By Sam Hodges August 28, 2017 | DALLAS (UMNS) From flooded buildings to pastors and other staff forced to flee their homes, United Methodist churches in south Texas grappled with a ruinous storm ...
