Make Justice a Reality
By Keith Boyette - At its founding in its Statement of Moral Principles, the Wesleyan Covenant Association declared, “We believe that all persons are of sacred worth…. The WCA specifically renounces all racial and ethnic discrimination and commits itself to work...
Messengers of Hope
Photos by David Parks - In the midst of waves of protests around the globe in response to the death of George Floyd, there were also worship services in communities that brought Christians of different ethnicities together to sing and pray, mourn and lament. In the...
Archive: Roy Beck On Why People Need To Know, Even When It Hurts
Archive: Roy Beck On Why People Need To Know, Even When It Hurts In his tumultuous six-year tenure at the United Methodist Reporter, the church's semi-official newspaper, Roy Howard Beck became almost as controversial as the investigative stories he wrote so...
Archive: Wesleyan Doctrines Under Question (1988)
Archive: Wesleyan Doctrines Under Question By Thomas C. Oden Good News March/April 1988 The issue of doctrinal standards is of such wide-ranging consequence that it cannot be swept away or politely ignored. From 1763 (and from 1773 on in America) it has been generally...
Archive: Bishops Back UMC Moral Standards
Archive: Bishops Back UMC Moral Standards Responding to efforts by some groups to liberalize United Methodism's stance against homosexuality, United Methodist bishops issued a statement in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, November 19 calling for high moral standards....
Archive: Does God Have A Detailed Plan For Your Life?
Archive: Does God Have A Detailed Plan For Your Life? What is the relationship between God’s will and your decisions? Here are two viewpoints Yes By Leslie and Bernice Flynn A survey taken at Chicago's O'Hare Airport asked, "Do you know God has a plan for your life?"...
Archive: Tipp City Turnaround
Archive: Tipp City Turnaround By Cynthia D. Lanning Ginghamsburg UMC boasts eight times the attendance it had eight years ago The church growth strategies at Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, Ohio, sound like prescriptions for failure. Prospective...
Archive: Why the Church has Declined
Archive: Why the Church has Declined The diagnosis is grim, but there’s hope for recovery By Ken Kinghorn A story is making the rounds in Moscow. It's about two workmen with shovels, one of whom stops every 20 feet to dig a hole, his companion fills it up, and they...
