Progressives Launch Denomination
By Heather Hahn - A group of progressive United Methodists and other Christians launched a new denomination named the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX. The new church aims to center on the voices of people of color as well as queer and transgender individuals —...
The Joy of Providing Food
By Jim Patterson - Potatoes connect former NFL player Jason Brown and part-time nurse and mother-of-four Lindsey Whitley, though they don’t know each other. Whitley’s home in Indian Trail, North Carolina, is about 200 miles from Brown’s farm in Louisburg. Potatoes...
Archive: Why We Don’t Call God Mother
Archive: Why We Don’t Call God Mother By John N Oswalt It is frequently asserted that until we erase male pronouns and appellations from our language about God, there is no hope for bringing women to full "personhood" as Christians. Furthermore, it is asserted that...
Archive: Is the UM Church a Confessional Denomination?
Archive: Is the UM Church a Confessional Denomination? By Kenneth Cain Kinghorn During the 1960s, a cult of self expression mushroomed within both secular society and America's oldline denominations. Certain people within the churches substituted individual autonomy...
Archive: Prayer and praise denote Aldersgate ’94 gathering
Archive: Prayer and praise denote Aldersgate ’94 gathering A whole lot of praying and praising was going on in Washington, D.C. when more than 1,450 United Methodists gathered for Aldersgate '94, the 16th denomination-wide conference on the Holy Spirit. The four-day...
Archive: Robb responds to radical feminism, challenges bishops
Archive: Robb responds to radical feminism, challenges bishops "Council of Bishops, are you listening? We will not bow our knee to Sophia," the Rev. Edmund Robb Jr. said at the 1994 Good News "Summer Celebration " in Dallas. "We will no longer support heresy with our...
Archive: Theological crisis decried at 1994 Good News celebration
Archive: Theological crisis decried at 1994 Good News celebration Displeasure with a November ecumenical women's conference was expressed repeatedly during the three-day "Summer Celebration" sponsored by Good News, the denomination's evangelical caucus. The event was...
Archive: Straight Talk
Archive: Straight Talk News, Views, & Uproars Good News was saddened to hear of the recent death of Tom Skinner, the well-known evangelist and former chaplain of the Washington Redskins football team. At the age of 52, he died of complications related to acute...
