A representative of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) appeared at a news conference this week to denounce an amendment — included in the recently passed House health-care bill — that would prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion. Linda Bales Todd, director of the Louise and Hugh Moore Population Project at GBCS, was among [...]
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Podcast: Bishop James King on ‘Preaching Authority’
Posted in Bishops, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on November 17, 2009 |
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop James King, episcopal leader of the United Methodist Church’s South Georgia Conference. Before being elected to the episcopacy in 2000, James R. King, Jr. served as a pastor in Alabama, California, and Tennessee, and as a District Superintendent in the Tennessee Conference. Prior to being assigned [...]
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