The Indecency of Hope
By Elizabeth Glass Turner - There are two kinds of propaganda: the true and the false. Propaganda is a charged word, evoking a range of associations depending on your nationality or job. Marketing professionals may harbor fondness for it; historians, less so. But...
General Conference Options
By Thomas Lambrecht As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ramp up across the U.S. and around the world, church leaders are thinking once again of General Conference, scheduled for August 29-September 7, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are rumors floating around...
Archive: Matching Our Walk with Our Talk
Archive: Matching Our Walk with Our Talk By Kenneth Cain Kinghorn Kenneth Cain Kinghorn recently received a letter from a bishop of the United Methodist Church in which the bishop lamented the inconsistent lives of professing Christians. He invited Dr. Kinghorn—vice...
Archive: Four Corners for Jesus
Archive: Four Corners for Jesus By Lorena Lynch November/December 1993 I was not born into a Christian family. In fact, in the 1940s less than five percent of my people were Christian; so my story is similar to that of many others who grew up on the reservation in...
Archive: Playing Skillfully
Archive: Playing Skillfully By Marilyn N. Anderes Politically correct. We hear it everywhere. The media exalts what the establishment dictates. The problem is that our morally deficient establishment elevates tolerance over truth. Samuel confronted a similar culture....
Archive: Unravelling Modern Theology
Archive: Unravelling Modern Theology By Dwight Sullivan Recently I attended a lecture that was both striking and disturbing. The speaker was Dr. Eta Linnemann, an eminent New Testament scholar who studied under the famous Rudolf Bultmann, a giant of the "Historical...
Archive: Good News Convo Hears From UM Evangelism Professors
Archive: Good News Convo Hears From UM Evangelism Professors by Jean Caffey Lyles An increasing number of evangelism professors at UM seminaries is evidence that the work of concerned evangelicals is bearing fruit in the denomination. That point was made during the...
Archive: Contempt of Court
Archive: Contempt of Court The Supreme Court’s Lawless Law Invites Lawlessness By Richard John Neuhaus The following is excerpted from an address delivered in late June to the National Right to Life convention in Milwaukee. I want to spend some time revisiting the...
