Reflections on the Proposed Protocol for Separation
By Timothy Tennent - Quite a stir has rippled out across the country because of reporting by Christianity Today, CNN, New York Times, among others, with headlines like this: “Methodists Agree to Split Denomination” (Christianity Today headline), “United Methodist...
Why a Mediated Negotiation?
By Keith Boyette - This year, The United Methodist Church is 52 years old. Of course, the Methodist movement, currently composed of approximately 80 distinct Methodist denominations worldwide, is much older than that. The UM Church was formed from the union of The...
Archive: Power for the Church in Crisis
Archive: Power for the Church in Crisis Condensed from an address by Dr. Frank Batemann Stanger President, Asbury Theological Seminary God's power comes to men through the activity of the Holy Spirit. The text for this address was Acts 1:4-8; 2:1-4; Luke 11:11-13....
Archive: Laymen, You Can Change the World
Archive: Laymen, You Can Change the World Condensed from an address by Howard Ball United Methodist Layman, San Bernardino, California Director, Lay Training, Campus Crusade for Christ First Christ must change us. Then we can become God's change-agents in a lost...
Archive: The Other Six Days
Archive: The Other Six Days Condensed from an address by Dr. Ira Gallaway President, United Methodist Council on Evangelism Superintendent, Fort Worth (Texas) District The world is watching to see whether our faith involves us, as Christians, in the struggles and...
Authority for the Church in Crisis
Authority for the Church in Crisis Condensed from an address by Dr. Dennis Kinlaw President, Asbury College The world has been changed – and will be changed – by men and women under dynamic authority of God's Word. Ours is a day of crisis. The evidence is on every...
Archive: The Crisis in our Church
Archive: The Crisis in our Church Condensed from an address by Dr. Charles W. Keyser, Editor, Good News Pastor, Grace United Methodist Church, Elgin, Illinois Unfaithfulness in a hundred forms – that is the anatomy of church crisis. As I looked out over this great...
Archive: Cyanide in the Church School
Archive: Cyanide in the Church School By Charles W. Keysor, Editor, Good News It is surprising what one can learn from our United Methodist church school curriculum. For example, in the United Methodist Teacher I-II, Spring 1969, page 100, we read this concerning the...
