Farewell to a Friend: Remembering William J. Abraham
By Steve Beard On Thursday, October 7, 2021, United Methodism lost a remarkable scholar who exercised his theological and spiritual gifts with wit and precision. Dr. William J. Abraham was one of the theologian pillars of the church – not just in Methodism, but in...
New Life After Prison
By Joe Henderson - Melissa Stevens, inmate number G30701 to the Florida Department of Corrections, didn’t know anything about the Rev. Kris Schonewolf the first time they met. Until that point, it had been just another day at Lowell Correctional Institution in...
Through the progressive looking glass
By Rob Renfroe
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1871), there is an amazing passage. I think it provides a great deal of insight into the debates and discussions that occur between those of us who are orthodox and those who refer to themselves as “progressives.”
The God of Free Grace
By B.J. Funk
Is there someone worth fussin’ over in your life? Does your daughter’s outward appearance turn you against her inner possibilities? Have you given up on your brother whose lifestyle is far from what your mother had in mind? What about that child in your classroom? No one else sees anything good in him. Why should you?
Transforming Justice
By B.J. Funk
Is there someone worth fussin’ over in your life? Does your daughter’s outward appearance turn you against her inner possibilities? Have you given up on your brother whose lifestyle is far from what your mother had in mind? What about that child in your classroom? No one else sees anything good in him. Why should you?
How did we get here from there?
By Riley B. Case
How did we get from there, from the Methodism of Bishop Simpson, to where we are today? Instead of 12 percent of the American population, United Methodism today counts 3 percent of Americans as United Methodist (and this after the EUB merger). In 1890, Methodism claimed 7.1 million members, almost as many as today, when the population was only a fifth of what it is today.
Archive: Crash Course – Alpha courses offer basics of Christian faith
By Mary Jacobs, The United Methodist Reporter
Jim Charlton was serving on the evangelism committee at Wheatland Salem Church in Naperville, Illinois, when he first heard of the Alpha course. While the United Methodist congregation was evangelistically minded, it was searching for an effective method to mobilize the congregation for evangelism. So Mr. Charlton and his pastor decided to check out a conference about the Alpha course.
From Super Market to Super Bowl: The Good News interview with Kurt Warner
By Steve Beard
Being cut by the Green Bay Packers was not part of the plan. Neither was returning to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and working the nightshift at the Hy-Vee supermarket for $5.50 an hour. Needless to say, playing in the Arena Football League for the Iowa Barnstormers and then doing a stint in front of Dutch fans in Amsterdam is not exactly the career path for star quarterbacks in the National Football League. However, that was all part of the zany agony-and-ecstasy trek of quarterback Kurt Warner, a real-deal quarterback who went from stocking shelves in a supermarket to hurling passes in three Super Bowls with two different teams.
