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During February, while MethodistThinker is on hiatus from new postings, we’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 [...]

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The final MethodistThinker Podcast of 2010 features an address by the foremost American evangelist of the 20th century, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, speaking at the 1980 United Methodist Congress on Evangelism. Born in North Carolina in 1918, William Franklin Graham gave his life to Jesus Christ at a evangelistic service in Charlotte in 1934. [...]

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The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris, currently interim president of Atlanta’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 [...]

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During MethodistThinker.com’s late-summer hiatus, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News. In a 1986 tribute, published several months after Dr. Keysor’s cancer-related death at age [...]

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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’s [...]

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Today (May 24) is observed by members of the Methodist and Wesleyan family as Aldersgate Day, commemorating a pivotal event in life of John Wesley — an experience of God’s grace that began his transformation from a largely ineffective Anglican clergyman into one of the most effective and influential leaders in Christian history. At a [...]

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The third podcast of our spring season features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News. In a 1986 tribute, published several months after Dr. Keysor’s cancer-related death at age 60, Good News magazine described him as [...]

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MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus from posting new material for several weeks. During this time, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2009. Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and [...]

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MethodistThinker.com will be on hiatus from posting new material for the next several weeks. During this time, we will showcase podcasts from the fall of 2009. The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season featured one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, [...]

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The following are our ten most-viewed posts of 2009 (the date of each post date is in parentheses): Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ (Oct. 12) In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy (June 29) Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ (March 26) Proposed amendments would separate UMC [...]

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The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. Dr. Teykl, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference, is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging  churches to develop and maintain [...]

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