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MethodistThinker.com documents happenings in the church and the culture, with an emphasis on the United Methodist Church.

This site is operated by Joseph Slife, a certified lay speaker in the UMC’s North Georgia Conference.

Joseph holds a B.A. from LaGrange College and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has done additional graduate-level course work at Bob Jones University and Asbury Theological Seminary.

Joseph serves on the board of directors for Good News, the University of Georgia Wesley Foundation, and Kid’s First Family Fellowship, a children’s ministry based in Athens, Ga.

In 2006, he received the Harry Denman Evangelism Award from the UMC’s Foundation for Evangelism.

Joseph serves as the senior producer/co-host of The World and Everything in It, a weekly radio program/podcast produced by WORLD News Group. He also writes occasionally for Sound Mind Investing. For 15 years, Joseph served as a radio producer for a parachurch ministry. Prior to that, he was employed by the Associated Press.

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