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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 Renewal [...]

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MLK’s 1964 address to the Methodist Student Movement

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Ethics, Social Issues, UM Higher Education, tagged on January 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In December 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a conference of the Methodist Student Movement, meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He spoke about the “Christian responsibility” to affirm that racial segregation “is morally wrong and sinful,” and he described nonviolence as “the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and human [...]

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Putting our HOPE in the state lottery

Posted in Holiness, Social Issues, UM Higher Education on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Blogger Josh Tinley reports that “United Methodist Communications (UMCom) has terminated its relationship with Buntin Group, the company responsible for the…’Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors’ campaign, because of Buntin’s work with the Tennessee Lottery.”

UMCom hired Buntin eight years ago to put together what the Nashville Post then described as a campaign that “is believed [...]

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