Feeds:
Posts

Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Book review: ‘Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century’

Posted in Bishops, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Politics, tagged , on March 26, 2012 |

The following review is by Ray Nothstine, managing editor of Religion & Liberty, a publication of the Acton Institute. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He also served on the staff of former Rep. [...]

Read Full Post »

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 |

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

MLK’s address to the Methodist Student Movement

Posted in Bishops, Christian/Methodist History, Ethics, Holiness, Politics, Social Issues, UM Higher Education on January 16, 2012 |

In December 1964, Southern Christian Leadership Conference president Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a gathering of the Methodist Student Movement in Lincoln, Neb. Speaking about the “Christian responsibility” to affirm that racial segregation “is morally wrong and sinful,” King described nonviolence as “the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and human dignity.” [...]

Read Full Post »

Podcast — George Hunter: Can the once-great Methodist movement become a movement again?

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Politics, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »

On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. George Hunter of Asbury Seminary details how Methodism, at least in its institutional United Methodist form, has become what it was once a reaction against. In his remarks, recorded earlier this year at United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. Hunter asks if “a once great movement” — [...]

Read Full Post »

The Manhattan Declaration: In defense of human life

Posted in Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, Holiness, Politics, Social Issues, United Methodist Church on January 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This post is by the Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth, president of the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality and editor of the Lifewatch newsletter. Mr. Stallsworth has served as the editor of three books: The Church and Abortion: In Search of New Ground for Response (Abingdon, 1993), The Right Choice: Pro-Life Sermons (Abingdon, [...]

Read Full Post »

United Methodists praying, speaking, and marching for life

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Politics, Prayer, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This Saturday (Jan. 22) marks the 38th 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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Methodist study guide on Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ‘appalling’

Posted in Bishops, Ethics, Politics, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on November 15, 2010 | 10 Comments »

This post is by the Rev. David Fischler, a church planter in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the founder of The Reformed Pastor blog. 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 holds degrees from Rutgers University and [...]

Read Full Post »

Polling data: Mainline Protestants going strongly for GOP

Posted in Politics, United Methodist Church, tagged , on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The latest election-related polling data from the non-partisan Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life suggests that a majority of voters who can be classified as “white Mainline Protestants” will support Republican Party congressional candidates in today’s elections. Although the margin of GOP-over-Democrat preference has tightened slightly in recent days, the latest Pew survey of [...]

Read Full Post »

Party platforms and the United Methodist Church, part two

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Ethics, General Conference, Politics, Social Issues, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged , on October 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This the second of two posts comparing the United Methodist “platform” (i.e. language from the UM Book of Discipline) with the official platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties. This post focuses on two issues: marriage and national security. As noted in part one, for Christians living in a democratic society, electing government leaders [...]

Read Full Post »

Party platforms and the United Methodist Church, part one

Posted in Book of Discipline, Ethics, General Conference, Politics, Social Issues, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged , on October 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »

For Christians living in a democratic society, electing government leaders is a stewardship responsibility, giving followers of Christ an opportunity to influence government in the direction of policies that promote virtue and restrain evil. In deciding how to cast their ballots, Christian voters may wish to reflect on how the positions of the major political [...]

Read Full Post »

Riley Case: The future of the United Methodist Church is at stake

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Holiness, Politics, Social Issues, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged , on July 16, 2010 | 18 Comments »

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. (Links below have been [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 54 other followers