The Role of Conferences in the New Methodism
By Thomas Lambrecht - “Conferencing” is at the heart of Methodist history and tradition. In 1744, only a few years after starting the Methodist movement, John Wesley called together the small group of preachers who formed the core of the movement for a “conference”...
COVID-19’s Destructive Path
By Sam Hodges - The Rev. Dunford Cole was too ill with the coronavirus to help with May 31 worship services at the two churches he leads in south Alabama. But he preached anyway via Facebook from his hospital bed the next day. Fighting for a full breath, choking back...
Archive: What a Renewed Methodism could mean
Archive: What a Renewed Methodism could mean By Dennis Kinlaw March/April 1987 THE PROGRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD in human history has seldom been uniform or unilinear. It has been more a matter of starts and stops. The history of Israel in the Old Testament...
Archive: They Chart Our Course
Archive: They Chart Our Course Good News board members direct renewal strategies and give leadership at every level of the church By Sara L. Anderson Riley B. Case Anybody who would dash out of bed at 5 a.m. to run four miles in sub-freezing weather must be (a)...
Archive: Blueprints for Renewal
Archive: Blueprints for Renewal Church leaders and ministry specialists make plans for church revitalization Bishop Cannon The first step the United Methodist Church must take if it is to renew its vitality and fulfill its historic (and I believe, providential)...
Archive: 20 Years at a Glance
Archive: 20 Years at a Glance By Sara L. Anderson and James V. Heidinger II PUBLICATIONS In the days of high-speed, high-tech printing with computerized labeling and subscription lists, the thought of producing a national magazine in a small print shop and assembling...
Archive: What Are We To Make of Jesus Christ?
Archive: What Are We To Make of Jesus Christ? By C.S. Lewis What are we to make of Jesus Christ? This is a question which has, in a sense, a frantically comic side. For the real question is not what are we to make of Christ, but what is He to make of us. The picture...
Archive: Ed Robb: Orchestrating an Evangelical Renaissance
Archive: Ed Robb: Orchestrating an Evangelical Renaissance By Sara L. Anderson A preacher once said that if the Apostle Peter were alive today, he would be a redneck, wear a cowboy hat, drive a pick-up truck with a gun rack in the back window—and he would have voted...
