The Wesleyan Way to Read Scripture
The Wesleyan Way to Read Scripture By David F. Watson - Last semester I taught a class called Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation. We read a considerable number of Wesley’s writings along with a couple of secondary texts. Rereading these primary and secondary sources led...
Where the Mainline Got Sidelined
By James V. Heidinger - In an ironic twist of fate or providence, it was a Jewish scholar who helped spark the intellectual and doctrinal renaissance in Dr. Thomas C. Oden (1931-2016), the pre-eminent Wesleyan theologian of our modern era. Will Herberg was a world...
Methodist Heritage: The Place of Evangelicals in the Methodist Church Today
Methodist Heritage: The Place of Evangelicals in the Methodist Church Today Bishop Gerald Kennedy (1907-1980) Good News, Winter 1967 The main difficulty in writing on this subject is finding a definition acceptable to the majority of Methodists. Finding two people who...
A death to ponder
A Death to ponder Editorial by Charles Keysor November/December 1976 Death often leads us to ponder, to reflect upon the earthly life and labors of one now departed. We remember what he or she has accomplished between the terminal points of birth and death. We...
Archive: Liturgy and Evangelism Belong Together
Archive: Liturgy and Evangelism Belong Together September 1967 By Ted Griner, Pastor, First Methodist Church, Statesboro, Georgia The conflict between liturgy and evangelism has been one of disregard and distrust. Seldom have the proponents of each engaged in...
Archive: The Fellowship of the Redeemed
Archive: The Fellowship of the Redeemed September 1967 By Howard A. Hanke, Professor of Bible, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky Member, Rocky Mountain Conference of The Methodist Church During the pastoral period in the Old Testament, a dedicated man of God expressed...
Archive: Books to Help You
Archive: Books to Help You September 1967 Conducted by Associate Editor Michael Walker, Associate Pastor, Walnut Hill Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis, by Carl F. H. Henry (Word Books, Waco, Texas, 1967, 120 pp., $1.75). Reviewed by...
Archive: The Character of a Methodist
Archive: The Character of a Methodist Part Two September 1967 by John Wesley This concludes the feature which began in the summer [June] issue. The Methodist knows that every single ability has come from God. So the Methodist gladly dedicates these talents to the...
