Grateful for Care-givers
We are so thankful for the amazing care-givers and first-responders who have stepped into the spotlight during this COVID-19 pandemic. Angela Gleaves, a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, posted this uplifting photo on Facebook amid...
The Myth of “Progress”
By Thomas Lambrecht - One often hears that Methodism used to believe the "wrong" thing about slavery, the ordination of women, and the affirmation of same-sex relationships, and that Methodism moved to believe the "right" thing about slavery and the ordination of...
Archive: From Hostility to Service
From New Mexico to Nashville, the Lord moved a young man Archive: From Hostility to Service by Tony Peña, UM Youth Service Fund Staff Person, Nashville, Tennessee There I was in Toronto, Canada, casually conversing with Peter Moss—the head of the Youth Department of...
Archive: They Cared Enough to Come Back
Invited to visit the Raleigh prison… Archive: They Cared Enough to Come Back by Cynthia V. Lanning, freelance writer, Cincinnati, Ohio The petite, tastefully dressed woman opened the letter from the mailbox in front of her comfortable suburban home. It was not a newsy...
Archive: A Word About Negativism
Archive: A Word About Negativism By James V. Heidinger II, Editor, Good News Magazine Our perceptions of things change slowly in the life of the church. But, happily, they do change. And every so often I still hear someone comment regarding Good News, "You're doing a...
Archive: Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
C. S. Lewis answers the question ... Archive: Is Christianity Hard or Easy? Reproduced from Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis ©1964, The Macmillan Company, New York Used with permission We were considering the Christian idea of "putting on Christ," or first...
Archive: Rõõmsad Teated! Good News in Estonia
Archive: Rõõmsad Teated! Good News in Estonia by Mark Elliott, Associate Professor of History, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky A college professor discovers a thriving Methodist congregation—and Good News supporters—behind the Iron Curtain. How often do you get to...
Archive: Everyone Walked Past Him
Archive: Everyone Walked Past Him a true story as told to Alan Cliburn, Van Nuys, California It would have been easy to ignore him. Everyone else had walked right past, perhaps pretending that he didn't exist, but I had seen him sitting there on the sidewalk when we...