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		<title>Defying denomination, UM church in D.C. offers to perform same-sex weddings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hours after a new law permitting homosexual marriage took effect in Washington, D.C., the oldest United Methodist church in the District issued a news release stating its intent to &#8220;celebrate same-sex weddings,&#8221; defying General Conference actions and Judicial Council rulings that expressly prohibit such ceremonies.
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		<title>Podcast: Dr. James Heidinger on United Methodist Renewal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus from posting new material for several weeks. During this time, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2009.
Our mid-October MethodistThinker Podcast featured a presentation by Dr. James V. Heidinger II, who retired last summer from the leadership of Good News, United Methodism&#8217;s flagship renewal ministry.
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		<title>Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — &#8216;Christianity at the Crossroads&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MethodistThinker.com will be on hiatus from posting new material for the next several weeks. During this time, we will showcase podcasts from the fall of 2009.
The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season featured one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker.
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1911, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=10383&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UM pro-life group urges Sen. Ben Nelson: &#8216;Do no harm&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Methodist pro-life organization known as Lifewatch is urging Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), a United Methodist layman, to reconsider his support of the recently passed Senate health bill, even as passage of a final health bill grows increasingly unlikely in the wake of last week&#8217;s U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.
In December, Sen. Nelson became [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=10286&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A United Methodist pro-life prayer guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday (Jan. 22) marks the 37th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=10202&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The UMC needs what InterVarsity has</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship&#8217;s triennial missions conference, Urbana 09 (held Dec. 27-Dec. 31 in St. Louis), a leader with The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) notes that the Urbana conference offers a clear and encouraging sign that &#8220;God is calling a new generation to His mission.&#8221;
&#8220;I just finished [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=10123&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The top ten MethodistThinker posts of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are our ten most-viewed posts of 2009 (the date of each post date is in parentheses):






Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ (Oct. 12)

In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy (June 29)

Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ (March 26)

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		<title>Why aren&#8217;t UM leaders supporting the Manhattan Declaration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a month after the release of the Manhattan Declaration, it remains unknown if any United Methodist bishops or board/agency leaders have signed the document. The declaration, now carrying more than 300,000 signatures, analyzes the dehumanizing forces at work in the world and affirms three general principles:

The sanctity of human life;
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		<title>Podcast: Terry Teykl on &#8216;Praying for the Lost&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/12/18/podcast-terry-teykl-on-praying-for-the-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer.
Dr. Teykl, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference, is a &#8220;prayer evangelist,&#8221; traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging  churches to develop and maintain prayer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=9958&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bishop William R. Cannon on &#8216;The Whole Gospel for the Whole World&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by the late Bishop William R. Cannon, a theologian and church historian who authored more than a dozen books, including History of Christianity in the Middle Ages, Theology of John Wesley, and Evangelism in a Contemporary Context.
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		<title>&#8216;Church and Society&#8217; decries pro-life amendment to health bill</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/11/20/church-and-society-decries-pro-life-amendment-to-health-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A representative of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) appeared at a news conference this week to denounce an amendment — included in the recently passed House health-care bill — that would prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion.
Linda Bales Todd, director of the Louise and Hugh Moore Population Project at GBCS, was among several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=9629&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bishop James King on &#8216;Preaching Authority&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/11/17/podcast-bishop-james-king-on-preaching-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop James King, episcopal leader of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s South Georgia Conference.
Before being elected to the episcopacy in 2000, James R. King, Jr. served as a pastor in Alabama, California, and Tennessee, and as a District Superintendent in the Tennessee Conference.
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		<title>How did the UMC come to define health care as a &#8216;right&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. House of Representatives approached a vote last week on H.R. 3962, legislation that would vastly expand the federal government&#8217;s role over the U.S. health-care system, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) asked Methodists to &#8220;contact your member of the U.S. House of Representatives this week and urge them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=9325&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial Council overturns bishop&#8217;s ruling on sexuality statement, affirms apportionments decision</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/11/03/judicial-council-overturns-sexuality-statement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Methodist Judicial Council, reversing a decision by Bishop John Schol, has ruled that a resolution passed this earlier this year by the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference is at odds with the United Methodist Book of Discipline&#8217;s official teaching on human sexuality.
The resolution, which mirrored legislation rejected by the 2008 General Conference, said that United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=9262&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UM Judicial Council to rule on sexuality resolution, apportionments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A statement on sexuality approved by the Baltimore-Washington Conference and a Western North Carolina Conference plan allowing flexibility in the payment of apportionments will go before the United Methodist Judicial Council this week. The two cases are among 21 items the denomination&#8217;s highest court will consider when it meets for its fall session starting Wednesday.
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		<title>Podcast — Harry Denman: &#8216;Are We Making Christ Known?&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by the featured speaker on this week&#8217;s MethodistThinker Podcast, Dr. Harry Denman.
As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and administration — both in his service at the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, and as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=9070&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riley Case: Approval of Amendment XIX a &#8216;positive development&#8217; for evangelicals</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/10/15/riley-case-approval-of-amendment-xix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As United Methodists await the official outcome of annual-conference voting on 32 proposed amendments to the UM Constitution, the apparent victory of Amendment XIX (19) has received relatively little attention. Instead, the focus has been on the now all-but-certain defeat of Amendment I (which would have altered membership requirements) and the poor showing of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=8978&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Hamilton: &#8216;We are in desperate need of excellent preaching&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 11th annual Leadership Institute, held last week at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, host pastor Adam Hamilton urged pastors and lay preachers to focus on improving the quality of their preaching. &#8220;We are in desperate need today of excellent preaching,&#8221; he said during the conference&#8217;s Oct. 9 morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=8802&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Dr. James Heidinger on &#8216;United Methodist Renewal&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/10/06/podcast-dr-james-heidinger-on-united-methodist-renewal/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s MethodistThinker Podcast features a presentation by Dr. James V. Heidinger II, recently retired as the president and publisher of Good News, United Methodism&#8217;s flagship renewal ministry.
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		<title>Mark Tooley profiled in WORLD magazine</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/09/29/mark-tooley-profiled-in-world-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oct. 10 issue of WORLD, the Christian-based newsmagazine, offers a profile of one of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s most influential and controversial figures, Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD).
For years, Tooley has been a thorn in the side of UM leaders who have sought to move the church away from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&blog=4447145&post=8608&subd=methodistthinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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