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...
A Protocol for Peace
By Chappell Temple - He's not exactly a theologian, but we could perhaps call him a prophet of sorts. Six years before the United Methodist Church was even formed, Neil Sedaka got it right in his signature song of 1962: "Breaking Up is Hard to Do." And that is so not...
Archive: With Christ in the Rockies
Archive: a local church adventure . . . With Christ in the Rockies By Eddie Robb Eight grueling days of climbing through snow storms, fording mountain streams and eating freeze-dried food is not what you'd expect for a typical summertime church retreat. But that's...
Archive: A Death to Contemplate
Archive: A Death to Contemplate By Charles W. Keysor, Editor Death often leads us to ponder … to reflect upon the earthly life and labors of one now departed. We remember what he or she has accomplished between the terminal points of birth and death. We consider how...
The Calling of E. Stanley Jones
Archive: The Calling of E. Stanley Jones by H. C. Morrison, Methodist Evangelist Condensed from his book "Remarkable Conversations, Interesting Incidents and Striking Illustrations''. Many years ago I had been engaged by a group of devout people to conduct a holiness...
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...
