A Crisis of Identity
By Tom Lambrecht - The current crisis in The United Methodist Church is often portrayed as a crisis of unity. The unity of our denomination is threatened by deep theological disagreement and the refusal of some parts of the church to abide by the decisions of General...
Gratitude and the Rock of Ages
By Steve Beard - I can still faintly visualize it. Many years ago, I was watching the first game of the NBA Championship series when it was announced that the rock band U2 would be performing for the half-time show. U2’s concert was in Boston while the basketball game...
Archive: The Biblical Basis for Christian Social Concern
Archive: The Biblical Basis for Christian Social Concern April 1968 By Donald L. Frank Pastor First Methodist Church, Mineral Point, Wisconsin Current times are very confusing to the dedicated Christian. He is the person who has heard the good news in Christ … he has...
Archive: Blessed Assurance
Archive: Blessed Assurance April 1968 By Buford M. McElroy, Sr. Pastor, First Methodist Church, Camp Hill, Alabama The late Bishop Bachman G. Hodge, of the North Alabama Conference, had a favorite story he loved to tell about one of his friends, who was an Episcopal...
Archive: The Dialogue We Need
Archive: The Dialogue We Need April 1968 By James D. McCallie, Pastor, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Jeffersonville, Indiana Pleasant Grove Methodist Church, Charlestown, Indiana This is the day of "dialogue" for churchmen of every persuasion. Protestants,...
Archive: Eschatology
Archive: Eschatology April 1968 By J.B. Phillips "Eschatology" is the doctrine or teaching about "the last things" – death, judgement, heaven and hell. Much of today's Christianity is almost completely earthbound, and the words of Jesus about what follows this life...
Methodist Heritage: The Place of Evangelicals in the Methodist Church Today
Methodist Heritage: The Place of Evangelicals in the Methodist Church Today Bishop Gerald Kennedy (1907-1980) Good News, Winter 1967 The main difficulty in writing on this subject is finding a definition acceptable to the majority of Methodists. Finding two people who...
A death to ponder
A Death to ponder Editorial by Charles Keysor November/December 1976 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...
