Sheltered in Place
By Laurie Drum - As of this writing, I am in my third week of shelter in place in Spain, one of the deadliest of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Life and circumstances change by the hour nowadays. Such a paradox, to be sitting still and locked in our...
A Friendship with Oswald
By B.J. Funk - I could safely say that Oswald Chambers and I are friends, having met over forty years ago. He talks to me daily, and even though I don’t understand all he is saying in his book, I always come back the next day to hear him again. These daily chats...
Archive: Why I Stay within the UM Church
Archive: Why I Stay within the UM Church by Marti Bennett, Homemaker and UM Layperson Durham, North Carolina As I considered joining the million or so Methodists who have exited before me, I began visiting (early service!) another denomination. This other denomination...
Archive: Why We Came Back to the UM Church
Archive: Why We Came Back to the UM Church by Kenneth and Elizabeth Borcher Milan, West Milan, Dummer UM Churches, New Hampshire Conference, Milan, New Hampshire We had had it. Several years of struggle and disappointment with the United Methodist Church had finally...
Archive: Why I Left the UM Church
Archive: Why I Left the UM Church by William David Epps, Minister of Outreach, First Assembly of God and Campus Minister, Mesa College, Grand Junction, Colorado Without question my decision to leave the United Methodist ministry was the most important decision I have...
Archive: Conversions Spell Real Growth
Archive: Conversions Spell Real Growth North Georgia Conference gets back to the basics in evangelism. by Gus Gustafson, Executive Director, Georgia Laity Board of Renewal The evangelism thermometer in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church keeps...
Archive: Wesley and Evangelism
Condensed from the 1981 Convo Address in Grove City, Pennsylvania Archive: Wesley and Evangelism by Robert E. Coleman, Professor of Evangelism Asbury Theological Seminary Had you been in London on a September Sunday afternoon in 1739, and sought to find the place of...
Methodist Heritage: Tindley Temple United Methodist Church
Methodist Heritage: Tindley Temple United Methodist Church By William F. McDermott Coronet magazine, June 1946 Good News March/April 1982 All Philadelphia went into mourning on July 31, 1933. Government officials and Chinese laundrymen, priests and scrubwomen,...
