A Primer on Local Church Assets
Dr. David W. Scott- Today's guest post is by UM & Global blogmaster Dr. David W. Scott, Director of Mission Theology at the General Board of Global Ministries. It originally was posted on UM & Global (umglobal.org) and is reprinted here by permission. The...
What Separation Means for U.S. Churches
By Tom Lambrecht - The legislation that would implement the Protocol for Reconciliation and Grace through Separation has been completed. It has been sent for formatting and will be forwarded to several annual conferences that are supposed to have special sessions in...
Archive: On Finding Roots
Archive: On Finding Roots By Charles W. Keysor, Editor Several years ago I was browsing in a used book store. Back in some dimly-lit shelves marked "religion" I chanced upon two musty, leatherbound books published in 1853. In them were 150 sermons by John Wesley! I...
Archive: Facing Spiritual Starvation
Archive: Facing Spiritual Starvation by Charles W. Keysor, Editor Browsing through some back issues of Good News I read again an editorial written back in 1970: "How Laymen Can Survive." I was struck by the fact that its subject, spiritual starvation of the laity, is...
Archive: Prayer as communion with God
From a long-forgotten book by an old-fashioned liberal, some wise counsel about … Archive: Prayer as communion with God by Harry Emerson Fosdick taken from the book, "The Meaning of Prayer" ©1915 by the International committee of the Young Men's Christian Association...
Archive: Some ABC’s of World Hunger
Archive: Some ABC's of World Hunger by Rev. Dr. Robert W. Sprinkle Director, Community Outreach Ministries, St. Petersburg, Florida former member, Good News Board of Directors The world's food crisis is not, in any simple sense, an "act of God." It has taken several...
Archive: All That Glitters…
Archive: All That Glitters… A firsthand account of one man's experience visiting the notorious Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. by Robert Wood, Good News Contributing Editor "The color of wet sand," I mused as Glide UM Church rose before me. It...
Archive: Where Two Centuries Meet
Archive: the camp meeting ... Where Two Centuries Meet by Eddie Robb, Associate Editor Good News In our country there exists a movement unknown to most people. Though it is widespread and thriving, no attention is given to it by the news media. You see, camp meetings...
