The Wesleyan Way to Read Scripture
The Wesleyan Way to Read Scripture By David F. Watson - Last semester I taught a class called Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation. We read a considerable number of Wesley’s writings along with a couple of secondary texts. Rereading these primary and secondary sources led...
Where the Mainline Got Sidelined
By James V. Heidinger - In an ironic twist of fate or providence, it was a Jewish scholar who helped spark the intellectual and doctrinal renaissance in Dr. Thomas C. Oden (1931-2016), the pre-eminent Wesleyan theologian of our modern era. Will Herberg was a world...
Archive: The Character of a Methodist
Archive: The Character of a Methodist June 1967 By John Wesley Few Methodists today are aware that Methodism's founder wrote a profound definition of the Methodist character. We have preserved the ideas of Wesley but tried to express them in 20th century language. ...
Archive: Is Evangelism Relevant?
Archive: Is Evangelism Relevant? June 1967 By Leighton Ford To many modern observers, evangelism seems like an antique chair in a museum: a curious relic of the past and an interesting phenomenon for study, but not to be sat on, not fit to bear the weight of today's...
Archive: My Miracle
Archive: My Miracle June 1967 By Granville E. Tyson I don't like categories. Names such as liberal, conservative, evangelical, existentialist, modernist, and fundamentalist are relative; to me they suggest one thing, and to you they suggest another. And they tend to...
Archive: Plea for a More Radical Gospel
Archive: Plea for a More Radical Gospel June 1967 By Don R. Locher I am convinced that the power and influence of the Church is seriously underestimated -- even by the clergy. Consider the fervent criticism aimed at the Church from both the champions of the status quo...
Archive: Oh, but We Couldn’t Do That!
Archive: Oh, but We Couldn’t Do That! June 1967 By William Harry Fetz Several of us were talking together about a local religious sect whose members forced their way into homes to insist that their particular non-Christian views be accepted as the ultimate truth of...
Archive: Our Lost Sheep
Archive: Our Lost Sheep June 1967 Editorial by Charles W. Keysor, 1967 The air is thick, these days, with suggestions for what The Methodist Church needs most. If we may be so bold as to add our voice to the clamor for church renewal, we suggest that some thing must...
