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		<title>Should we turn control of UMC over to the Council of Bishops?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Joe M. Whittemore, a member of the United Methodist Church&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18721&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Action member: We must foster vital congregations or &#8216;we do not have a future with hope&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s Call to Action Steering Team says the team&#8217;s task was to be &#8220;prophetic&#8221; and to avoid the &#8220;terminal niceness&#8221; that has long inhibited realistic discussion of the challenges facing the denomination. &#8220;We were asked to do a deep study of the church,&#8221; the Rev. Jorge Acevedo, lead pastor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18249&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General Conference &#8220;who will represent God-honoring, Kingdom-focused, Christ-first, biblically strong positions.&#8221; He says that the outcome of this year&#8217;s elections will determine whether or not the future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18215&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast encore: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/02/16/podcast-encore-bishop-alfred-norris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During February, while MethodistThinker is on hiatus from new postings, we&#8217;re showcasing podcasts from our fall 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University in New Orleans and Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. After serving for 16 years as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=16776&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Wende: Doctrinal orthodoxy should be deciding factor in choosing GC delegates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pastor of one of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s largest congregations is urging those casting votes for delegates to the 2012 General Conference not to allow personal friendships to carry more weight than theological orthodoxy. &#8220;[If a brother or sister wants my vote] and yet they don&#8217;t believe the same things I do, all I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=16599&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bishop Alfred Norris on &#8216;Vitality in Ministry&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris, currently interim president of Atlanta&#8217;s Gammon Theological Seminary. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University (New Orleans) and Gammon Seminary. After serving for 16 years as a United Methodist pastor and district superintendent in his native state, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=15045&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent UM layman offers analysis of amendments outcome</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prominent United Methodist layman has compiled a percentage breakdown of last year&#8217;s votes on 32 proposed amendments to the United Methodist Constitution, showing the areas of the church in which the various amendments were most strongly supported or rejected. Although votes on the amendments took place at annual conference sessions in 2009, the totals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=13557&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Scott Jones: Rethinking the path to a worldwide UMC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into a series of more-autonomous regional conferences, the bishop who heads the Committee to Study the Worldwide Nature of the UMC is appealing for help in finding a restructuring approach that will gain approval across the denomination. Speaking last week at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=12921&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast—Maxie Dunnam: &#8216;Pastor as Prophet, Priest, Evangelist&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1955), he went on to earn a Master of Theology from Atlanta&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=12385&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four things the UMC must do &#8216;to serve the present age&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Richard Hunter, senior pastor of Snellville United Methodist Church (North Georgia Conference). He holds a doctorate in parish revitalization from McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago) and teaches on the adjunct faculty at both Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology. — Ed. I want to be a part of renewing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=11724&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Georgia overwhelmingly disapproves restructuring amendments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By an average tally of 94% to 6%, delegates to the 2009 session of the North Georgia Annual Conference voted disapproval of five amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into &#8220;regional&#8221; conferences that would have greater national autonomy. Final approval or disapproval of the amendments, all of which received a two-thirds majority endorsement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=6970&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Mike Watson: The life-giving rules of Methodism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describing &#8220;the Methodist way of living&#8221; as being &#8220;based on faith not on fear,&#8221; presiding Bishop Mike Watson opened the 2009 session North Georgia Annual Conference. He spoke about the three General Rules of the United Methodist Church: &#8220;Do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God&#8221; (the last is literally &#8220;attending upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=6949&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A conversation with North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/06/09/a-conversation-with-north-georgia-bishop-mike-watson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bishop Mike Watson, episcopal leader of the United Methodism&#8217;s largest U.S. Conference, is interviewed in the premiere issue (PDF) of the North Georgia Advocate, now the official newspaper of the North Georgia Conference. (The North Georgia Advocate is the successor to the recently discontinued Wesleyan Christian Advocate.) Bishop Watson was assigned to North Georgia last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=6727&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders in North Georgia, Holston urge defeat of re-structuring amendments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders from two Annual Conferences in the Southeastern Jurisdiction — the North Georgia Conference and the Holston Conference (covering parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia) — are urging defeat of proposed constitutional amendments that would restructure the denomination. In North Georgia, a self-described &#8220;ad hoc group of very concerned United Methodist[s]&#8221; — which includes nearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=6576&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would &#8216;decimate connectionalism&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/03/26/ed-tomlinson-amendments-would-decimate-connectionalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr.  Ed Tomlinson, who served for eight as years executive assistant to the bishop of the North Georgia Conference, is expressing strong opposition to five constitutional amendments to be voted on this year by Conferences throughout the United Methodist Church. If passed, the amendments would allow United Methodists in the United States to structurally segregate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=4978&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wesleyan Christian Advocate to end publication this month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 20 edition of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate will be the 172-year-old newspaper&#8217;s final issue &#8220;in its current format,&#8221; according to a story in the Advocate&#8216;s March 6 edition. The newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences, battered in recent years by rising costs and declining revenues, then will go through a &#8220;two-stage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=4633&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Ed Mathison: Six ways for a pastor to make a lasting difference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his address last week to North Georgia&#8217;s Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, Dr. John Ed Mathison focused not only on seven concerns about the United Methodist Church, but on six specific ways pastors can become more intentional about make a lasting difference in the lives of others. Dr. Mathison, who &#8220;retired&#8221; last year following more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=4593&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/03/04/john-ed-mathison-seven-concerns-about-the-umc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man who led one of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his &#8220;ideas and opinions&#8221; last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=4498&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Georgia UM pastor is &#8216;Chaplain of the Year&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/02/05/north-georgia-um-pastor-is-chaplain-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Officers Association this week recognized Chaplain (Major) James B. (Jim) Higgins of the U.S. Army Reserve as Chaplain of the Year. The award is given for &#8220;extraordinary contribution to the welfare, morale and effectiveness of the military reserve services.&#8221; Major Higgins is also the senior pastor of  McEachern Memorial UMC in the North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=3878&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wesleyan Christian Advocate to &#8216;cease publication&#8217;; paper may merge with UM Reporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long financial struggle, the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the 172-year-old newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences, will cease publication within the next six months. The paper, however, may continue in a different form as part of Texas-based UMR Communications, publisher of the UM Reporter, owner of the UM Portal web site, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=3896&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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