Diverse leaders’ group offers separation plan
By Sam Hodges, UMNS - A diverse, 16-member group of United Methodist bishops and other leaders has offered a proposal that would preserve The United Methodist Church while allowing traditionalist-minded congregations to form a new denomination. The separating group...
Key Bishops and Advocacy Group Leaders Propose Plan of Separation
By Walter Fenton, Wesleyan Covenant Association - Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey presides at the 2019 General Conference. Bishop Harvey is the Council of Bishops’ president-elect and she is one of the 16 signatories of the protocol agreement. Photo credit Council of...
Archive: Curriculum Confrontation: Chicago
Archive: Curriculum Confrontation: Chicago By Charles W. Keysor, Editor, Good News On April 18, 1969, a significant meeting took place at O’Hare Inn, Chicago, Ill. A delegation representing Methodism’s Wesleyan evangelicals met with the Advisory Committee of the...
Archive: The Crisis in Methodist Curriculum
Archive: The Crisis in Methodist Curriculum By Charles W. Keysor, Editor, Good News Recently a man said to his Administrative Board: "I have been a Methodist pastor for 20 years. And I have always used Methodist literature. But this new stuff is not compatible with...
Archive: The Lost Authority
Archive: The Lost Authority By Lon Woodrum, Hastings, Michigan, Contributing Editor of Good News In today’s widespread crisis of authority, none is more marked than that in the Roman Catholic Church. This is especially evidenced in the universal reaction to Pope...
Archive: What is Evangelicalism?
Archive: What is Evangelicalism? PART I By Bruce R. Shelley Condensed by permission from "Evangelicalism in America," published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan On his first Sunday in Georgia in 1735, John Wesley, the young Anglican missionary...
Archive: How Shall We Escape?
Archive: How Shall We Escape? By Buford M. McElroy, Sr., Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Camp Hall, Alabama There must be a deep realization that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in our sophisticated "tech-ronic" age. But the cost of discipleship will not...
Archive: A Local Pastor Prescribes Wesley
Archive: A Local Pastor Prescribes Wesley By John W. Evster, Pastor, United Methodist Parish, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin John Wesley preached a series of 13 sermons on "Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount." It is significant that he chose these sermons to be included among...
