Tenor’s Prayer
By Steve Beard - Perhaps no singular image better captured Easter under the treacherous cruelty of the coronavirus than Andrea Bocelli performing a solitary sacred concert in the spectacularly cavernous Duomo di Milano, the cathedral in Milan, Italy. By the time...
The Church in a Storm
By Omar Al-Rikabi- “A terrible screaming began among the English,” John Wesley wrote in his journal, “But the Germans calmly sang on.” Sailing aboard The Simmons from England to the American Colonies in 1736, Wesley found his ship overtaken by storm after storm....
Archive: What I Saw in Ethiopia
Archive: What I Saw in Ethiopia By John Wieler Now I've seen it with my own eyes. Let me tell you what I saw at the feeding camp at Decamhare, run by a Christian church there. Maybe 1,000 people had been getting fed at this camp. But by the time I arrived the camp had...
Archive: Wesley’s Principles For Social Action
Archive: Wesley's Principles For Social Action by Frank Baker During this century there has been an increased emphasis upon the social dimension of Methodist witness. In 1908, inspired by a theology of the social gospel proclaimed by the Baptist, Walter Rauschenbusch,...
Archive: My Hard Rock World
Archive: My Hard Rock World By Lenny Stadler with Ruth Snyder It was like I was falling and there was no bottom. The surgeon had given me the prognosis ... a 50/50 chance. Just like flipping a coin—heads you live, tails you die! We had a concert at Chapel Hill, North...
Books that Helped me Grow
Books that Helped me Grow By Bishop W.T. Handy, Jr. January/February 1985 The books that have been most helpful to me in my spiritual walk (exclusive of the Bible) are: Christian Way in Race Relations edited by William Stuart. This book taught me that protest against...
Books that Helped me Grow
Books that Helped me Grow By Robert Coleman January/Febraury 1985 The books that have been most helpful to me in my spiritual walk are: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Pensées by Blaise Pascal, and Christian Perfection by Francois Fenelon. The Pilgrim's...
Books that Helped me Grow
Books that Helped me Grow By Charles Colson (1931-2012) January/February 1985 First and foremost, for me, is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. It is the book which God used to lead me to Christ. I was impressed most of all by the chapter on pride, because it so...
