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Riley Case: Seminaries and the decline of United Methodism

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Leadership Development, Ordination, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 7, 2011 | 2 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 is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) and [...]

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D.C. attorney general urges court to ‘alter and amend’ GBCS ruling

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Ethics, Social Issues, Stewardship, tagged , on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Arguing that the District of Columbia Superior Court’s ruling “constitute[s] legal error,” the D.C. attorney general has taken the usual step of asking the court (PDF) to “alter and amend” its ruling in a case involving endowment funds held by the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS). The attorney general’s office represents [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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UM seminary embraces non-Christian faiths, will train Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »

With the stated goal of helping “solve the world’s big problems,” a seminary of the United Methodist Church is becoming an “inter-religious institution” and will add clerical-training programs for Jews and Muslims this fall. Southern California’s Claremont School of Theology (CST) — one of 13 official United Methodist seminaries — later plans to create programs [...]

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A conversation with North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson

Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 9, 2009 |

Bishop Mike Watson, episcopal leader of the United Methodism’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 [...]

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Update on the ‘Church and Society’ court case

Posted in Ethics, Social Issues, Stewardship, United Methodist Church on March 19, 2009 |

Joe Whittemore, a former member of the United Methodist Church’s Committee on Audit and Review (part of the General Council on Finance and Administration), has authored an extensive column about the pending court case involving the UM General Board of Church and Society. The case, now awaiting a ruling from the Superior Court of the [...]

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John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” 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 [...]

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Bishop Robert Schnase on ‘The Five Practices’

Posted in Bishops, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged on January 14, 2009 |

Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Conference) has done a great service for the United Methodist Church with his book, The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. The United Methodist News Service notes that “[p]ublisher Abingdon Press has sold nearly 75,000 copies of the Five Practices book, and demand is hot for the companion leader manual and media [...]

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Former member of Board of Church and Society speaks out

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Ethics, Media, Social Issues, Stewardship, United Methodist Church on January 8, 2009 |

Rob Renfroe is the pastor of adult discipleship at The Woodlands (Texas) United Methodist Church, one of the UMC’s ten largest churches. He is also a former member of the UM General Board of Church and Society (GBCS). Writing in the January/February 2009 Good News, Mr. Renfroe mentions the current lawsuit related to whether GBCS has [...]

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For the pastor on your Christmas gift list

Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, Stewardship on December 16, 2008 |

Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn’s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and [...]

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