Archive: Putting an end to the Catholic bashing! My boyhood years during the 1940s were spent in a small town in southwestern Minnesota. That idyllic community had many virtues, but religious tolerance and ecumenism were not among them. The virus of anti-Catholicism...

Archive: Servant Evangelism Opening Closed Hearts to God’s Love By Steve Sjogren To earn the right to speak words of love, we must first willingly demonstrate deeds of love to the hurting people in our cities. It was the Friday evening before Labor Day, and rush hour...

Archive: UM official reveals lesbianism; Good News responds The Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, associate general secretary of the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concern (GCCUIC), identified herself as a lesbian when she addressed the Reconciling...

Archive: Good News Celebration draws 600; says lordship of Jesus central to UM Church "Nothing is more determinative of our life and faith than what we think about Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture," Dr. Maxie Dunnam told an enthusiastic crowd of more than...

Archive: Goddess litany at UM seminary chapel ignites controversy At United Methodism's Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (GETS) in Evanston, Illinois, spring term ended on a controversial note when a May 4 chapel service included a litany offering questions...

Archive: Tarzan Christianity By Duffy Robbins When I was a young boy, one of my favorite television heroes was Tarzan, "King of the Jungle." I can still see him flying through forests, his bronzed muscles framed by that classic leopard-skin outfit, the whole jungle...