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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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 UMC, United Methodist Church 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 [...]
Riley Case: ‘Operational Assessment’ shows UMC has lost its way
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Discipleship, General Conference, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. He writes below about the “Operational Assessment” of the United Methodist Church submitted in late June to the UMC’s Call to Action Steering Team. The assessment (executive summary | full report | appendices—all in PDF) [...]
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 Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church 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 [...]
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 Audio 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 [...]
