A Sufficient Christmas
By B.J. Funk - Before my mother-in-law left for heaven, she was trapped in her limited body by a debilitating stroke. For five years, she lay motionless in the bed, unable to speak or communicate. Christmas came. Roy and I traveled from sunny South Georgia to the...
The Mission Movement in the Post-Soviet Context
By Bishop Eduard Khegay - I was born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan (former Soviet Union). My ancestors come from an undivided Korea four generation back to the 1860s. I became a Christian in 1992 when I was a student at Moscow State Tech University shortly after...
A Matter of Interpretation: Engaging Adam Hamilton
By Rob Renfroe and Thomas Lambrecht
In a recent column in The Washington Post, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas (the largest United Methodist congregation in the U.S.), stated that Bible verses that prohibit same-sex intimacy “capture the cultural understandings and practices of sexuality in biblical times, but do not reflect God’s will for gay and lesbian people.” This is not a new position for Rev. Hamilton to take. He came to the same conclusion in his 2010 book, When Christians Get It Wrong.
UM Men leader clarifies Boy Scouts statement
The following statement from Gilbert Hanke, General Secretary of the General Commission of the United Methodist Men, was issued on January 31, 2013. It is a follow-up clarification to a UM News Service story entitled “2 agencies agree with change in Boy Scout ban.”...
Archive: The Gold Medal for Jackie Robinson
By George Mitrovich
In becoming the first black man to play in the major leagues, Robinson encountered racism in its vilest manifestations—racial taunts and slurs, insults on the playing field and off, character assassination, death threats, and anything else the wicked among us in mid-twentieth century America could throw at him. But despite the evil of such provocations he somehow found a way to rise above his tormentors, to literally turn the other cheek and demonstrate that however great his athletic skills, his qualities as a human being were infinitely greater. In this story is another story—not about a baseball player, but a story about a man and his faith. It is a story seldom mentioned in the secular press.
John Southwick Joins Good News; Ministry Launches New Endeavor
NEWS RELEASE Good News, an orthodox renewal and reform ministry within The United Methodist Church, is expanding its work in the area of church revitalization. The Rev. Dr. John Southwick has become the new Director of Research, Networking, and Resources for Good...
Remembering Frank Warden: A Life that Bore Much Fruit
By James V. Heidinger II
The Good News family lost a former member of its board of directors, the Rev. Dr. Frank Warden, who died November 14, at his home in Searcy, Arkansas, on his 80th birthday. Frank was elected to the Good News board in 1974 but had already been involved in Good News’ ministry, helping the Rev. Mike Walker with local arrangements for the First Good News National Convocation in Dallas, Texas, the summer of 1970.
Good News responds to distorted abortion statement
As United Methodists, we do not believe that Jesus Christ came to “bring about a new era of reproductive justice.” Instead, Jesus said that the “Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). Aside from making a mockery of biblical imagery regarding life and death, when will United Methodist personnel in Washington D.C. and New York stop acting like an abortion rights lobby group and begin to tell the whole truth about United Methodism’s position on abortion?
