Are Traditionalists “Leaving” The United Methodist Church?
By Tom Lambrecht - The recently announced separation plan called the "Protocol on Reconciliation and Grace through Separation" has aroused many reactions in and beyond the church. Some are satisfied and even hopeful that the long-running conflict in our church can...
Why I Support the Separation Proposal
By Rob Renfroe - Responses to the proposed plan for separation could hardly be more divergent. Some are shouting "hallelujah" and others are feeling dismissed, even sold out. There are several components of the plan that I do not like. In particular, I don't like the...
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...
Archive: On Resurrection of the Dead
Archive: On Resurrection of the Dead "How can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?" In preparation for Easter, "Good News" offers hilites para phrased from John Wesley's sermon, "On Resurrection of the Dead." Because this message deals with the...
Archive: A Witness to all Nations
Archive: A Witness to all Nations By Lon Woodrum, Contributing Editor From his book, "Sign From Outer Space" © 1967 Suddenly, against Jesus' presagement of the future, breaks a far-reaching light of promise: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the...
