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What is at stake in the battle over marriage

Posted in Doctrine, Holiness, Social Issues on May 7, 2012 |

Tomorrow (May 8) voters in North Carolina will decide whether to approve a state constitutional amendment that says “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in [North Carolina].” The commentary below is by the Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in [...]

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Prayer for UM General Conference from prominent Southern Baptist provokes sharp responses

Posted in Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Media, Prayer, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on April 30, 2012 |

A Monday afternoon tweet by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received sharply negative responses from several United Methodist tweeters. At 4:19 p.m. Eastern Time, Mohler tweeted: “Join me in praying that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will hold firm for biblical standards of sexuality.” Mohler apparently was referring to [...]

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A conversation with Mark Tooley on General Conference 2012

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on April 24, 2012 |

Mark Tooley, author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010) discussed the UMC’s 2012 General Conference in an interview Tuesday on Issues Etc., a daily program produced by Lutheran Public Radio. You can listen to the 10-minute conversation below. (If the audio player doesn’t work, use this mp3 file.) Mark Tooley is [...]

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Rob Renfroe of Good News on General Conference 2012

Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, General Conference, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on April 23, 2012 |

Whatever benefits a restructuring The United Methodist Church may bring, it will not result in the UMC becoming more effective in its stated mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ, according to Rob Renfroe, the president of Good News, the oldest and largest renewal ministry within United Methodism. In a radio interview that aired April [...]

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Should United Methodists agree to disagree on homosexuality?

Posted in Book of Discipline, Discipleship, Doctrine, General Conference, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on April 17, 2012 |

The following statement was released April 13 by the Renewal and Reform Coalition, composed of Good News, the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church, Lifewatch, RENEW, Transforming Congregations, and UMAction. Links and subheadings have been added by MethodistThinker.com — Ed. – It’s that time again. General Conference will soon be here and all of [...]

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General Conference 2012: More attempts to change UM standards on sexual behavior

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, General Conference, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on March 19, 2012 |

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), and he has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. He is [...]

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UMC restructuring: Power shifts, turf battles and trust

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on February 6, 2012 |

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), and he has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. He is [...]

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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 |

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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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.” [...]

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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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Podcast: Mark Tooley, author of ‘Taking Back the United Methodist Church’

Posted in Church Renewal, General Conference, Holiness, Podcasts, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on July 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The final podcast of our spring season features a conversation with Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010). To listen (7 min.), click the arrow on the audio player below — or download an mp3 file (6.7 MB). For [...]

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