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Bishop Timothy Whitaker: United Methodists must stand against ‘violence of abortion’

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Politics, Sermons, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on January 23, 2012 | Comments Off

Jan. 22 marked the 39th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Taken together, the two rulings (authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, a United Methodist) effectively voided dozens of state laws aimed at protecting unborn children from abortion. Since then, abortion doctors have [...]

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Should we turn control of UMC over to the Council of Bishops?

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 19, 2012 | Comments Off

The following commentary is by Joe M. Whittemore, a member of the United Methodist Church’s Connectional Table. Mr. Whittemore, a delegate to the 2012 UM General Conference, has chaired Committee on Episcopacy for the Southeastern Jurisdiction and has served as the Lay Leader of North Georgia Annual Conference. This opinion piece was originally published in a [...]

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If defiance continues, United Methodism may come crashing down

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Judicial Council, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on July 15, 2011 | 20 Comments »

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) [...]

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Outcome of DeLong trial likely to exacerbate disunity of UMC

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on June 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »

The following post is by blogger and church planter David Fischler. He writes frequently on topics related to mainline Protestantism at his blog, The Reformed Pastor. A New Jersey native, David was born of Jewish parents and became a Christian in college after reading the Bible for the first time. He served as a United [...]

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Bishop Mack Stokes: Holiness in human sexuality

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Discipleship, Doctrine, Ethics, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on June 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Issues related to human sexuality are front and center in both the culture and the church. In this post, excerpted from the out-of-print book Scriptural Holiness For the United Methodist Christian (Discipleship Resources, 1987), retired UM Bishop Mack B. Stokes discusses sexuality from the standpoint of both the historic teaching of the Christian faith and [...]

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Judicial Council refuses to allow homosexual marriage for clergy

Posted in Book of Discipline, Doctrine, General Conference, Holiness, Judicial Council, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 9, 2011 | 8 Comments »

The following commentary, about a recent decision by the United Methodist Judicial Council, is by blogger and church planter David Fischler. David writes frequently on topics related to mainline Protestantism at his blog, The Reformed Pastor. A New Jersey native, David was born of Jewish parents and became a Christian in college after reading the [...]

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Judicial Council asked to revisit Decision 1032, allow homosexual clergy to marry

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, General Conference, Holiness, Judicial Council, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on April 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »

For the eighth time, the United Methodist Judicial Council is being asked to revisit a 2005 ruling that declared that the pastor-in-charge of a UM congregation is invested with the authority to determine if a parishioner is spiritually prepared to take the vows of church membership. The council — the denomination’s supreme court — will [...]

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Breaking the covenant: Why aren’t ‘Reconciling’ churches being held to account?

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Sermons, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on March 21, 2011 | 33 Comments »

The following commentary is by Wesley Putnam, a full-time evangelist in the UMC and former president of the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists. Below, Mr. Putnam provides an eyewitness account of a Feb. 27 church conference at University United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas, at which the church voted to affiliate with the pro-homosexuality [...]

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Riley Case: Retired bishops’ statement is a sign of UMC’s sickness

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on February 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) [...]

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Renewal & Reform Coalition responds to retired bishops’ call to alter UMC’s sexuality standards

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, General Conference, Holiness, Ordination, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The following statement was released Feb. 16 by the Renewal and Reform Coalition, composed of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church, Good News, Lifewatch, RENEW, Transforming Congregations, and UMAction. Links below have been added by MethodistThinker.com — Ed. – In early February 2011, a group of [32—now 36] retired United Methodist bishops issued [...]

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Podcast encore: Dr. Billy Abraham on ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Evangelism, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

MethodistThinker.com is on its semi-annual hiatus (observed in February and August). This month, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2010. The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season featured Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North Ireland in [...]

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