The Challenge of Change
By B.J. Funk - “Plan your work and work your plan.” Sometimes, however, those plans have to be laid aside. That’s where churches found ourselves this past year. Covid-19 took the lead role in the play called, “Think Again … You Actually Thought You Were in Charge?”...
The Real St. Patrick
By Steve Beard - While sifting through obscure Spanish colonial records, it was discovered a few years ago that the very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not conducted in Boston, Chicago, nor New York City. Instead, the Irish feast day was celebrated in modern day...
Archive: Thoughts on the Kingdom
Archive: Thoughts on the Kingdom January/February 1999 Good News God's reign "The kingdom of God is basically the rule of God. It is God's reign, the divine sovereignty in action. God's reign, however, is manifested in several realms, and the gospels speak of entering...
Shake, rattle and repent: Spin gets religion
Shake, rattle and repent: Spin gets religion By Steve Beard Good News November/December 1997 British clergyman Gerald Coates was fond of saying: “God is doing more behind our backs than he is doing in front of our eyes.” In other words, God pops up in the most...
Farewell to a princess and a saint
Farewell to a princess and a saint By Steve Beard Good News November/December 1997 Even weeks after the fact, people are still talking about it. After all, within five days the world lost its two most beloved women. Mother Teresa died at age 87 of a heart...
Tacos and late-night prayer with Bishop Aquiña
Tacos and late-night prayer with Bishop Aquiña By Steve Beard May/June 1997 It is not often that I have been invited to eat dinner with a bishop. It is even rarer to have a bishop prepare dinner for me. But that is what happened while I was recently in Mexico,...
Forward to Our Methodist Heritage
Forward to Our Methodist Heritage (By Charles Keysor) By Bishop Earl G. Hunt 1996 AFTER DR. JAMES S. STEWART of Edinburgh had preached a few years ago to a large audience of United Methodist ministers and their wives in Charlotte, North Carolina, a young minister...
Troubled soul finds salvation
Troubled soul finds salvation By Alice Crann At first Joseph Justiss hated the revival. “I remember not being able to breathe. My head was hurting. I was nauseated. I watched [evangelist] Steve Hill preach and I hated it.” He left vowing never to return. The next...
