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Let’s Not Repeat St. Louis
By Rob Renfroe - General Conference 2020 is less than a year away. There is much work to do if we are to avoid a repeat of St. Louis when we gather in Minneapolis. Legislation that can end our fighting needs to be written in the next few months to ...
Global Church Wrestles with Post GC2019 Pain
By Heather Hahn - About a month after the special General Conference, United Methodist leaders from Austria to Zimbabwe were still reckoning with what happened and expressing pain all around. Members of four denominational leadership bodies took ...
Shepherd to the Fringes
By Steve Beard - "Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town’s garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek … at the ...
Obsessed with the Resurrection
By Kenneth Tanner - A great befuddlement befalls some intelligent Christians when it comes to the definition of resurrection. On Holy Saturday the New York Times published an interview with the president of Union Theological Seminary in which she ...
Case for Separate Paths
By Kent Millard and David F. Watson - As the 2019 General Conference limped toward its conclusion, those in attendance were reminded that we could not stay beyond our allotted time in the convention center. The next major event would be a ...
In the News
Amazon Sold $240K of ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary’ Fakes, Publisher Says
It is heartbreaking to report that thieves have illegally published and sold counterfeit copies of one of our favorite books through Amazon. The cover story for Good News on July/August 2017 was an ...
