It’s Time to Move On
By Rob Renfroe - It’s time. General Conference 2020 will convene in just over four months. It’s time for a definitive solution to our differences over the authority of Scripture, marriage, and sexual ethics. It’s time for General Conference to admit we can no longer...
Christ on the Wrist
By Steve Beard - Her spiritual journey began by asking about a tattoo of Jesus on the wrist of a client. Aimee Burke cuts and styles hair in a hipster neighborhood in Toronto. “She partied a lot and was partial to coke,” reported The Globe and Mail, one of the largest...
Brother Stanley
Missionary to India, evangelist extraordinary, founder of the Christian Ashram Movement, author whose books number in the millions, the late E. Stanley Jones wrote an unforgettable chapter in the annals of world Methodism. Yet he liked to be known simply as Archive:...
Prayer Made All the Difference at the 1976 General Conference
Archive: Prayer Made All the Difference at the 1976 General Conference By Charles W. Keysor, Editor, Good News Magazine "Wisdom is better than weapons of war," wrote the author of Ecclesiastes long ago. What wisdom can we gain from the 1976 General Conference? Above...
Coni
Archive: Coni The Story of a Seeker Seven years ago—when I was 17—I was with the "in crowd" in high school. But things didn't move fast enough for me. I was bored and looking for something that was more exciting. As the pressures of school grew, and the uncertainties...
The Portland General Conference: The Second Week
Archive: The Portland General Conference: The Second Week By the time delegates were seated and the General Conference began its business session Monday morning, 170 items had been cleared through the various legislative committees and were waiting final action. With...
The Church Beautiful
The Church Beautiful Condensed from an address delivered at the 1975 Good News Convocation by Paul Morell, Pastor, Tyler Street United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas Chairman of the Good News Board, 1974-75 I have some particular ideas that I want to share with you...
Mister Methodist of the 19th Century
Mister Methodist of the 19th Century By Eddie Robb, Student, Perkins Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX Contributing Editor, Good News In the fall of 1818, Peter Cartwright was invited by one of the prominent Presbyterian pastors of Nashville to preach in his church on...
