Chaplains Comfort and Grieve During COVID-19
By Jim Patterson - Flexibility is key for United Methodist chaplains as they cope with families who can’t see their loved ones – sometimes even dying loved ones – because of the coronavirus that has killed thousands as it spreads around the world. United Methodist...
Take Away our Pride: The Lordship of Jesus
By David F. Watson - The year 1906 marked the publication of G.K. Chesterton’s poem, “O God of Earth And Altar.” It subsequently was put to haunting music and adapted as a hymn. Although it was written over a century ago, it is nevertheless a song for our times. O God...
Archive: New Power for the Church
Archive: New Power for the Church By Albert Outler September/October 1984 Good News Albert Cook Outler (1908-1989) was the preeminent John Wesley scholar in America. He served four pastorates in Georgia before becoming a seminary professor. He taught at Duke and Yale...
Archive: Francis Asbury
Archive: Francis Asbury The Man Who Launched American Methodism By William K. Quick The famous statue of Francis Asbury in Washington, D.C. depicts a rider in bronze, a weary rider astride a weary horse. Fatigue weighs heavily upon the man. There is a feeling of...
Archive: Nobody’s Perfect, Right?
Archive: Nobody’s Perfect, Right? What Wesley taught about Christian Perfection by William B. Coker John Wesley referred to the doctrine of Christian perfection as "the grand depositum which God has lodged with the people called Methodists." Some have called it...
Archives: New Mission Society for UMs Opens for Business in Atlanta (1984)
Archives: New Mission Society for UMs Opens for Business in Atlanta March/April 1984 Good News A new missions agency designed to give United Methodists a way to support more evangelical missionary activity opened for business on February 1, in Atlanta. The Mission...
Archive: 100th Birthday of E. Stanley Jones observed in Baltimore (1984)
100th Birthday of E. Stanley Jones observed in Baltimore Good News March/April 1984 Who was the most famous American missionary of this century? Which mainline church leader was popular enough to fill Madison Square Garden with his listeners eager to listen to him...
Archive: Dr. Jesus Moves In At Atlanta’s Ben Hill Church
Archive: Dr. Jesus Moves in at Atlanta's Ben Hill Church By James S. Robb March/April 1984 Good News If your soul is sick, maybe you’d better go see Dr. Jesus. That’s the advice they’re offering these days at Ben Hill United Methodist Church in Atlanta. With the...
