What Separation Means for Clergy
By Thomas Lambrecht - As the details of the "Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace through Separation" become better understood, questions arise about how the Protocol of Separation would affect groups within the church. I have already looked at how it affects...
What Separation Means for Central Conferences
By Thomas Lambrecht - Now that the enabling legislation for the "Protocol for Reconciliation and Grace through Separation" has been publicly released, I am at liberty to share more fully the details of what it proposes. I previously wrote about how the process of...
Archive: How to Study the Bible
Archive: How to Study the Bible reprinted from The New International Version, New Testament Copyright © 1976 by The Zondervan Corp. There is no other book in the world quite like the Bible. It is an exceptional piece of literature. You can read it to enjoy the...
Archive: The Authority of Scripture
Without the Bible to guide us in the Christian life and the church, we are like an airplane without a compass … a ship without a rudder. That is why it is vitally important to consider Archive: The Authority of Scripture by G. W. Bromily, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. Rector,...
Archive: The Missing Magnet
Archive: The Missing Magnet By Charles W. Keysor, Editor The word from Mary Lee Clark Church in Oklahoma City is: "If you can't stand before God and be proud of our church, then we have nothing to offer others." So said the North Texas United Methodist Reporter for...
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...
