8 bishops join in planning new denomination
By Heather Hahn, UMNS A group of United Methodist leaders, including eight bishops, has issued a statement sharing its vision for a global traditionalist denomination focused on evangelism and the “primacy of Scripture.” Among the group’s essential doctrinal beliefs...
Breaking News: New Methodist Wesleyan Movement Announced
God calls us to embrace a new day as the people called Methodists. Established in the faith entrusted to us by our forbearers, we discern the Holy Spirit reviving the Methodist movement in a new work. We are committed to God’s vision given to our predecessors “to...
Archive: John Wesley and Christian Lifestyle
Archive: John Wesley and Christian Lifestyle by Barbara Jackson Lifestyles are much in our conversations today, often as a response to world shortages of energy and food. But lifestyle has always been an issue of importance to religious communities. During this Lenten...
Archive: Good News and Charismatics
Archive: Good News and Charismatics[1] By Charles W. Keysor, Editor, Good News Magazine Late last year a separate organization was formed by some United Methodists who are charismatic. It is known as UM Renewal Services Fellowship. Its headquarters are in Nashville...
Archive: Why Not Emphasize Worship?
Archive: Why Not Emphasize Worship? By Charles W. Keyson, Editor, Good News Magazine Trial balloons are starting to float upward, borne on freshening political currents of the 1980 General Conference. Various pressure groups are jockeying to determine what will be the...
Chatting with Chuck Colson
Chatting with Chuck Colson January/February 1978 Good News Charles “Chuck” Colson, one of America’s leading evangelicals, spoke at the 1977 Good News Convocation. In an exclusive interview before the event, Good News editor Charles W. Keysor and associate...
Archive: And You Came to Me
Matthew 25:36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison Archive: And You Came to Me Larry Bogart is a United Methodist doctor who spent three years in a maximum security prison, where God led him as a servant-witness for Jesus...
Archive: Christmas 1784
The bloody American Revolution had just ended. In it, a new nation had been born, and was now taking its first faltering steps in freedom. Methodists in America were on their own, and so the preachers assembled in Baltimore for a "Christmas Conference." God showed His...