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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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MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus until after Labor Day. In the interim, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Dr. Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. In his presentation, he focuses on a widely quoted statement made by Methodist [...]

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The United Methodist Renewal and Reform Coalition has released the text of a letter sent earlier this year to the UM Council of Bishops. The Coalition includes the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church, Good News, Lifewatch, UM Action, and Transforming Congregations. The full text is reproduced below. Links have been added by MethodistThinker.com. [...]

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MethodistThinker.com is observing its second anniversary this week.* The site receives an average of 2,000-3,000 unique visitors each month, and over the past two years has enjoyed nearly 120,000 page views. The five most-viewed posts during the past 12 months all involved original reporting: 1. Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ [...]

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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 has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. (Links below have been [...]

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A prominent United Methodist layman has compiled a percentage breakdown of last year’s votes on 32 proposed amendments to the United Methodist Constitution, showing the areas of the church in which the various amendments were most strongly supported or rejected. Although votes on the amendments took place at annual conference sessions in 2009, the totals [...]

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The president of a United Methodist-affiliated seminary says Christians who feel the need to evangelize people of other faiths have “an incorrect perception of what it means to follow Jesus.” The comment from Jerry D. Campbell, president of California’s Claremont School of Theology, was published July 2 by the United Methodist Reporter. “The correct perception [...]

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For the second time in less than a year, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), an official agency of the denomination, has published an article arguing that sexual relationships outside the covenant of marriage are not necessarily improper. “An Ordained Single Woman and the Discipline,” published June 7 as part of [...]

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Following the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into a series of more-autonomous regional conferences, the bishop who heads the Committee to Study the Worldwide Nature of the UMC is appealing for help in finding a restructuring approach that will gain approval across the denomination. Speaking last week at [...]

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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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