We Must Have a 2022 General Conference
By Rob Renfroe - Will we hold General Conference in 2022? That’s the question many people are asking. The simple answer is we must. And we can. This year, the most vocal progressive church in my annual conference, the Texas Annual Conference, requested and was...
Being Church In a War Zone
By Bob Kaylor Driving through the countryside of the Normandy region of France feels a bit like entering the world of an animated Walt Disney film. The green fields, bushy hedgerows, lolling cows, and medieval-period stone houses, churches, and barns call to mind many...
Different location, same mission
By Rob Renfroe — If you haven’t heard yet, Good News is moving its offices. What’s not changing is our historic, God-given mission to reform and renew the United Methodist Church. That has always been the purpose of Good News. And it always will be.
Permission to speak freely
By Anne Jackson–In May 2008, I posted a question on my blog that simply asked, “What’s one thing you feel you can’t say in the church?”
Your Life, God’s Gift
By Rob Renfroe — Here’s what I’ve concluded. Life is a trust. Life is a gift that God places in our care. We have been entrusted with this most precious thing called a human life. And like any gift, it can be wasted or squandered. Or it can be used for the purpose it was intended.
UMCOR plans food project for Sudan
UMCOR plans food project for Sudan by Linda Bloom (UMNS) http://bit.ly/bgFvrZ
Court sides with agency on use of funds
By Heather Hahn (UMNS) — The United Methodist Church’s social action agency can use funds given to the church’s building on Capitol Hill for advocacy beyond temperance-related issues, a District of Columbia judge has ruled.
When blind eyes see
By B.J. Funk My daddy often quoted Longfellow’s phrase, “Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary.” Darkness is a scary thing. When we were small, we thought that boogie bears and goblins inhabited the dark. When we grew up, we knew for...
