Tag: Heritage

  • Methodist Heritage: New York’s John Street

    Methodist Heritage: New York’s John Street By Edmund Robb III Good News, January-February 1977 What do a one-eyed army captain, an Irish immigrant, and a distraught woman have in common? They were all part of launching Methodism in New York City. Here’s how it all began. In the early 1760s

  • Methodist Heritage: World Methodist Council 1961

    Methodist Heritage: World Methodist Council 1961 Address by Bishop Gerald Kennedy Tenth World Methodist Conference Oslo, Norway August 19, 1961 In the nineteenth century, the English theologian Frederick Dennison Maurice wrote: “I cannot but think that the reformation in our day, which I expect to be more deep and searching than

  • Methodist Heritage Archive: Brother Stanley

    Methodist Heritage: Brother Stanley By Edmund Robb III Good News Archive, July-August 1976 TIME magazine, Oct. 20, 1948: “A grand old man among U.S. missionaries is a rugged Methodist preacher named Eli Stanley Jones. Baltimore-born Missionary Jones went to India in 1907, and his 35 busy years there made him