Marriage: A School for Discipleship
By Tom Lambrecht - The cover story of the current issue of Christianity Today is entitled, "Can the Church Save Marriage?" I heartily recommend that and other articles in this month's issue that talk about the challenges to marriage in our contemporary global culture....
Coping with Covid-19 and washing dishes with love
By Steve Beard - There are good reasons to avoid watching the evening news these days. It is a rough slog, even for those with sunny dispositions. The pandemic has severally thrown us off the normal rhythm of life. Piped-in crowd cheers at baseball games, shuttered...
Archive: Fatal Attraction
Archive: Fatal Attraction The Seductive Promises of Socialism Have Subverted Our Concern for the Poor Part One by Clark H. Pinnock We live in an era of the unprecedented expansion of the Christian movement throughout the world. Ours is a hopeful time of great...
Archive: Solzhenitsyn And the United Methodist Church
Archive: Solzhenitsyn And the United Methodist Church By James S. Robb In the dog days of August 1989, I have been spending my evenings reading Solzhenitsyn's August 1914. Alexander Solzhenitsyn stands as perhaps the world's greatest living author. In my mind he is...
Archive: Lausanne II: What Happened and Where Were The UMs?
Archive: Lausanne II: What Happened and Where Were The UMs? Analysis By George G. Hunter III More than 4,300 participants and observers from denominations and movements in nearly 190 countries assembled in Manila's Philippine International Convention Center for the...
Archive: What Dorothy Sayers might say to the United Methodist Church
Archive: What Dorothy Sayers might say to the United Methodist Church By Ruth Zimmer Ask Dorothy Sayers a question, and you might not like her answer. She was not given to supplying comfortable or expected answers. A scientist found this out when he asked Dorothy...
Archive: Miracle on Bailey Ave.
Archive: Miracle on Bailey Ave. By David Hampton When all other churches were moving away from the increasingly impoverished downtown Jackson, Mississippi area, Wells UMC stayed. Now a miracle is happening among the drugs, gangs, and poverty. Ask the Rev. Keith Tonkel...
Archive: The Infant Baptism Controversy Part II
Archive: The Infant Baptism Controversy Part II By Ben Husted In the July/August issue Dr. Ben Husted examined infant baptism from a historical perspective in order to answer some of today's controversial questions: Is infant baptism biblical? Is rebaptism wrong? Is...
