Military Chaplains Deployed
By Sam Hodges - The skies were gray. The faithful had to wear masks and keep their distance. But Lt. Cmdr. Genevieve Clark, a United Methodist chaplain in the U.S. Navy, was still able to lead an Easter sunrise service on the flight deck of the USNS Mercy, a hospital...
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...
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,...
The Bodily Resurrection
The Bodily Resurrection By Clark Pinnock March/April 1982 Each of the four Gospels announces that the tomb in which the crucified Jesus had been buried on Friday afternoon was empty on Easter morning. Their testimony is supported by the primitive preaching recorded in...
Archive: Missionary of the Century
E.A. “Tata” Seamands Archive: Missionary of the Century by Jonathan Massey A showdown was taking place in the dusty, turn-of-the-century streets of "rootin', tootin', shootin' Tucson, Arizona." Earl Arnett Seamands faced a merciless bully standing right in front of...
Archive: How Ann Became an Evangelist
Archive: How Ann Became an Evangelist by Bob Withers, Pastor, Ball's Chapel and Fairfield United Methodist Church Copy Editor, The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, West Virginia Pastors often hear their parishioners say, "Oh, if God would just give me a message to take to...
