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  • What is Your Wayward Child Worth to God?

    Editor’s Note: Our friend and longtime Meridian writer Larry Barkdull passed away. To remember and honor him this is one of a series of his past articles that we are republishing regularly. If the scriptures teach us anything, they teach us that Israel’s God will not let Israel go,[i] despite her

  • Africans Disenfranchised at General Confernce

    Good News is attending the 2024 General Conference of The United Methodist Church meeting in Charlotte, NC, from April 23 to May 3. Our efforts are focused on providing a disaffiliation pathway for annual conferences and local churches that have not had a fair opportunity to discern their future. This

  • April 29 | God’s Covenant with David

    Today’s Reading: Read 2 Samuel 7; I Chronicles 17; Psalm 127:1; Psalm 1 Grab some Legos or Lincoln Logs.  Work together to build a house.  Ask, “Did you know that “make a house” can have more than one meaning?  What else do you think it could mean? In our reading

  • Research and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

    The “Catholic Intellectual Tradition” is a concept often invoked to help characterize the warrant for a conversation staged between the sciences and the humanities, where the latter include philosophy and, of course, theology—even if theology is not strictly speaking a discipline of the humanities but a sacred science, a “sacra

  • Whistling in the Dark

    Here’s the story behind the story of the tense, inspiring and compelling new film, Escape from Germany, by TC Christensen, which tells of the Latter-day Saint missionaries who escaped from Germany just hours before World War II erupted. The story was originally researched by Terry Bohle Montague, who spent many

  • In Regard to the Dakotas-Minnesota alteration

    In Regard to the Dakotas-Minnesota alteration April 19, 2024 It has come to our attention that an anonymous person went on the Dakotas UM Annual Conference website and changed an official document to contain alleged misinformation and divisive rhetoric. (Although we have made a request to Bishop Lanette Plambeck’s office

  • April 24 | TOGETHER

    Today’s Reading: Read 2 Samuel 5:1-10; I Chronicles 11:3; I Chronicles 12:38-40; Psalm 133 It was finally time!  ALL of Israel decided it was time to anoint David as King.  David became the King of Israel.  The Israelites said, “The Lord also said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people,