Working for Good
By Rob Renfroe - One of the great counterintuitive truths of our faith is that God brings good out of bad. What human beings mean for evil, God often uses to bring about a new and better day. There is no greater example than the cross. Our Lord Jesus – pure, innocent,...
United Methodist Collection Rates Plunge as COVID-19 Rises
By Heather Hahn- The United Methodist Church already is feeling financial fallout from COVID-19’s devastating spread. In a May 29 online meeting that also included prayers for an end to racism, General Council on Finance and Administration board members got a glimpse...
Archive: Is Nothing Worth Dying For?
Archive: Is Nothing Worth Dying For? The transcendent is being stripped out of American culture. People are calling out, 'What can I believe in anymore?' By Charles Colson It's hard these days to pick up a newspaper without feeling a sense of betrayal. Not long ago...
Dr. Rose: Hope for Dying Churches
Dr. Rose: She has an unshakeable Hope for Dying Churches By Sara L. Anderson March/April 1989 Have a country church with waning membership, a dilapidated building and no hope? Don’t call the coroner, call Dr. Rose. While the United Methodist Church has closed...
Archive: Unpacking Charles Wesley’s “O For A Thousand Tongues”
Archive: Unpacking Charles Wesley's “O For A Thousand Tongues” By Riley B. Case March/April 1989 Good News If there were a hymn that might claim the title “The Methodist National Anthem” it would be “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing.” For two hundred years this hymn...
Archive: Fake Fruit
Archive: Fake Fruit By Mark Rutland Desperate for employment, a depression-era farmer applied at a passing circus. At the circus office door he made an impassioned plea. "I'll do anything," he begged. At this the manager's eyes lit up. "You're hired," he nearly...
Archive: What in the World is America?
Archive: What in the World is America? Is our example of freedom an inspiration to the world? Or is it an impediment? By Richard John Neuhaus Unlike most other historic powers, America is not a nation by demographic and geographic accident, nor is it demarcated by the...
Archive: In Search of Heaven
Archive: In Search of Heaven By James S. Robb Funerals affect people in different ways. Some people are tearful; others are depressed. A few brave spirits try to be joyful. I'm usually awestruck. We Christians are expert rhetoricians. We talk endlessly about such...
