Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
By Thomas Lambrecht- Our church and our culture are divided. Same-sex marriage, gender identity, pornography, abortion, cohabitation, divorce. These and other “culture war” issues pose a challenge to Christians about how to understand and articulate biblical Christian...
Stirring up Mission Vision
By Jenifer Jones- Nearly 20 years ago, Jorge Acevedo had an epiphany. He’s the lead pastor at Grace Church, a multi-site United Methodist congregation in Southwest Florida. At the time, his church was one of the fastest growing United Methodist congregations in the...
Archive: Chronicles of Narnia: Values that the book embraced
Archive: Chronicles of Narnia: "Values that the book embraced" Steve Beard talks with Mark Johnson November/December 2005 Mark Johnson has been producing films for more than twenty years. He has been involved in projects as diverse as Diner, My Dog Skip, Good Morning...
Archive: Chronicles of Narnia: Faithful Adaptation
Archive: Chronicles of Narnia: Faithful Adaptation Steve Beard talks with Michael Flaherty November/December 2005 Michael Flaherty is the president of Walden Media, the film studio that is producing C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. He recently...
Debating the old professor: C.S. Lewis and the advent of Aslan
Debating the old professor: C.S. Lewis and the advent of Aslan By Elizabeth V. Glass 2005 On a winter night in 1948, C.S. Lewis defended his argument for the existence of Narnia. No, he didn’t try to prove the reality of other worlds behind wardrobe doors. In fact, at...
Archive: Church must change world through witness, bishop says
Archive: Church must change world through witness, bishop says UM News Sept. 28, 2005 By Tom Slack CINCINNATI (UMNS) - To have an impact on the world, the church of the future must have a confident witness, and its people must be “atonement bearers,” according to...
Archive: Alpha sweeping the globe
Archive: Alpha sweeping the globe July/August 2002 Good News More than 3.8 million people thought to have completed the Alpha course around the world in the last six years, according to a report released by a London-based British research organization, Christian...
Archive: The Way of Faith for Alice Cooper
Archive: The Way of Faith for Alice Cooper May/June2002 It was recently announced that the biggest hit in the 24-year history of MTV is a program called “The Osbournes.” The half-hour show – complete with constant bleeping from excessive foul language – is a curiously...
