Broad Traditionalist Group Casts Vision for Future Denomination
By Thomas Lambrecht - A group of nearly 30 diverse United Methodist bishops, clergy, and laity -men and women, African-American, Asian, Caribbean, Caucasian, and Hispanic persons from every U.S. jurisdiction, and three central conferences -recently concluded a...
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...
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...
Archive: The Virgin Birth is Vital
Archive: The Virgin Birth is Vital By Charles W. Keyson, Editor Recently a Good News critic said, "I like some of the things you people are doing, but I think you make too much emphasis on petty doctrines." "Can you give us an example?" we asked. "Yes—the Virgin...
Archive: When God Became A Man
What do Christians celebrate on December 25? Archive: When God Became A Man By H.C. Morrison, Methodist Evangelist Adapted from his message "The Christ of the Gospel" preached in 1915 "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the...
Archive: Where Evangelism Comes Alive
Archive: Where Evangelism Comes Alive By Eddie Robb, Associate Editor, Good News What could bring 1821 pastors, their spouses, and seminarians from 99 denominations to Metropolitan United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit? a) A settlement of Howard Hughes' will,...
