The Rollercoaster After Revival
The Rollercoaster After Revival By Alexandra Presta My blood sugar is 47. Currently, I sit in the student center at Asbury University with tingling and numb lips. My fingers shake every time I pause in between typing on my laptop. I’ve already eaten dinner. I’ve...
Navigating Special Times of Refreshing
Navigating Special Times of Refreshing By Suzanne Nicholson What do you do when the streams of living water suddenly burst into a flood? The spiritual outpouring that began at Asbury University on February 8, 2023, was spontaneous and unexpected. After an ordinary...
In All Things
By Walter B. Fenton Surely the psalmist was using flood in a metaphorical sense when he cried out, "Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me"...
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 Disaster Response, Advance #901670, at www.umcor.org If churches receive...
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 catastrophic flooding to much of south Texas. The Rev. Vincent Harris, a...
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 that wouldn’t go away.The Rev. Rudy Rasmus of St. John’s United Methodist...
Stonewalling in the West
Before publishing the following commentary regarding complaints filed against Bishop Karen Olevito, Good News reached out to Bishop Grant Hagiya, president of the Western Jurisdiction's College of Bishops. We asked him if "there [was] any information regarding this...
Wesley and Schism
By Walter Fenton- Dr. Scott Kisker's recent essay on John Wesley, Methodism, and schism begins as so many often do. He quotes from Wesley's famous sermon On Schism: "It is evil itself." But just when we think Kisker is setting us up for another lecture on schism's...
Confronting racism and violence
“To our shame, overt racism is becoming more acceptable in American culture today,” writes Bishop Scott Jones, the United Methodist episcopal leader of the Texas Annual Conference, in his recent pastoral letter. “It is a deep affront to the Greatest Generation that...
Orthodoxy and Ethics
By Walter Fenton- James K. A. Smith, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, has recently sparked a healthy conversation about how the word "orthodox" (literally, "right belief") is used these days, particularly when it is interjected into the volatile conversation...
John Wesley’s Letter to a Roman Catholic
DUBLIN July 18, 1749. 1. You have heard ten thousand stories of us who are commonly called Protestants, of which, if you believe only one in a thousand, you must think very hardly of us. But this is quite contrary to our Lords rule, “Judge not, that ye be not...
John Wesley, Open Hearts, and Roman Catholicism
Editor’s note: Since we mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation sparked by Martin Luther and his 95 Theses, we would like to take this opportunity to post this sermon from Roman Catholic Cardinal Walter Kasper marking the 300th anniversary of John Wesley’s...
