A Longtime Friend (May/June 2026)

response Magazine is a Continuation of Methodist, Evangelical, and United Brethren Women Telling Their Own Story for More Than 100 YearsThis year marks the 47th anniversary of response magazine. It’s been published now for almost 50 years. But really, this magazine’s history goes back even farther: All the way to the beginning. The first issue of Heathen Woman’s Friend was published in June 1869, just three months after the founding of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, what is today United Women in Faith. This issue is a continuation of 157 years of Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren women telling their stories. ...