Glide Leaves Methodism
By Thomas Lambrecht - Resolution is finally in sight after two contentious years of strife between Bishop Minerva Carcaño of the California-Nevada Annual Conference (CNAC) and the leadership of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, a progressive...
Popes, Politicians & John Perkins
Popes, Politicians & John Perkins By Courtney Lott 2021 In 1972, Time magazine implemented what is now known as “Person of the Year.” Far from an automatic honor, this distinction merely designates someone as a representation of the year that has just...
Archive: Triumph over Tragedy
Archive: Triumph over Tragedy By Dave Dravecky How to Celebrate Life When it Throws You a Curve Ever since playing catch with my dad, baseball had become my life. It's what I watched on TV. It's what I played. It's what I read about when I spread out the Sunday paper....
Archive: John Wesley for Today
Archive: John Wesley for Today By Earl G. Hunt Jr. May/June 1993 Certain fundamental needs of our modern United Methodist Church can be met more satisfactorily by a contemporary reproduction of John Wesley's emphases than by any other means available. The brief...
Archive: Back to the Future with Thomas C. Oden Part II
Archive: Back to the Future with Thomas C. Oden Part II The January/February 1993 issue of Good News highlighted the illuminating thoughts of Thomas C. Oden, professor of theology and ethics at the Theological School, Drew University. The following is a continuation...
Archive: Jet Landings
Archive: Jet Landings The inner city is filled with dead-ends and closed doors. Well, it used to be that way. by Boyce A. Bowdon Near the door to the Jets' room at Pennsylvania Avenue United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, there is a cardboard box about two feet...
Archive: The Devaluing of Evangelism
Archive: The Devaluing of Evangelism By Bishop Louis Schwengerdt March/April 1993 For 175 years, we the people called "Methodist" were enthusiastic and evangelistic. In the 1960s we stopped being both. A dramatic change took place. We became a different church. What...
Archive: The Priority of Evangelism
Archive: The Priority of Evangelism By John Ed Mathison Forget about all of those theoretical books on church growth. John Ed Mathison has seen Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, multiply from a 400-member congregation in 1970 to its...
