Remapping Our Wesleyan Future
By Thomas Lambrecht - News that General Conference 2020 has been postponed until sometime in 2021 has thrown the denomination into a temporary limbo regarding a future amicable separation. Beyond question, this was the right decision. With the spreading coronavirus...
Wrestling with Budget After GC2020 Postponed
By Heather Hahn - The pandemic-forced postponement of General Conference has left United Methodist financial leaders with big questions about the denomination’s budget. The General Council on Finance and Administration board spent much of a March 27 teleconference...
Archive: Remaining United Methodist
Archive: Remaining United Methodist By James V. Heidinger II, Editor, Good News Each week word comes of persons who have decided to leave the United Methodist Church. There's no use not talking about it. It’s happening too frequently across the church. Sadly, many who...
Archive: A Former Homosexual Testifies to the Gospel of the Grace of God
Archive: A Former Homosexual Testifies to the Gospel of the Grace of God By Jeff Painter, Musical Evangelist, Fairmont , West Virginia My name is Jeff. I am in full-time ministry as a Christian pianist and evangelist. This is done with the approval and recommendation...
Archive: In Quest of Worthwhile Worship
We talk about worship, but why do we worship and how? Archive: In Quest of Worthwhile Worship by Ben Patterson, Reprinted from The Wittenburg Door[1] The Word of God has fallen on bad times. That statement is hardly news to anyone who, over the last decade, has cared...
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...
