God’s Royal Family
By Bob Kaylor - I recently did one of those Ancestry DNA tests – you know, that test where you send in a small capsule of your spit and $100 and they send you back a multi-page, full-color profile that tells you who’s been swimming in your personal gene pool. It used...
God is Birthing a New Methodist Movement
By Keith Boyette - What follows is an adaptation of the address the Rev. Keith Boyette, president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, delivered at the WCA’s Global Gathering held at Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, November 9, 2019. I...
Archive: On Resurrection from the Dead
Archive: On Resurrection from the Dead “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” I Corinthians 15:20 This message was originally published by Benjamin Calamy, D.D., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, In...
Father Otterbein III – The Gentle Revolutionary
Father Otterbein - The Gentle Revolutionary Part III by Sondra O'Neale Otterbein was 26 years old when he took his first pastorate at Lancaster, PA. The congregation was difficult, having been without a pastor for a year and a half. But there was one family of...
The Future of The United Methodist Church
The Future of The United Methodist Church 1976 by Rev. Michael Walker Pastor, Salem-Kinser United Methodist Church, Greenville, Texas The question of the future of the United Methodist Church is important to each of us. We have invested our lives in its life and work;...
Archive: Come, Let Us Reason Together
Archive: Come, Let Us Reason Together By Charles W. Keysor, Editor Late this summer we were saddened by an ugly accusation. An editorial published in the September issue of the Interpreter, official United Methodist program journal, accused Good News of plotting to...
The Crisis of Theological Education in the United Methodist Church
The Crisis of Theological Education in the United Methodist Church An address delivered July 22, 1975, at the sixth annual Good News Convocation, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina by the Rev. Dr. Edmund Robb, Pastor, St.Luke's United Methodist Church, 3717 44th Street,...
Father Otterbein II – The Gentle Revolutionary
Father Otterbein - The Gentle Revolutionary Part II by Sondra O'Neale In the last issue of Good News, we met William Otterbein. We saw his godly family of six brothers who preached the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in and around Germany. And we saw God lead the fiery...
