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		<title>What is at stake in the battle over marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (May 8) voters in North Carolina will decide whether to approve a state constitutional amendment that says &#8220;Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in [North Carolina].&#8221; The commentary below is by the Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19444&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer for UM General Conference from prominent Southern Baptist provokes sharp responses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 01:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Monday afternoon tweet by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received sharply negative responses from several United Methodist tweeters. At 4:19 p.m. Eastern Time, Mohler tweeted: &#8220;Join me in praying that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will hold firm for biblical standards of sexuality.&#8221; Mohler apparently was referring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19525&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A conversation with Mark Tooley on General Conference 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Tooley, author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010) discussed the UMC&#8217;s 2012 General Conference in an interview Tuesday on Issues Etc., a daily program produced by Lutheran Public Radio. You can listen to the 10-minute conversation below. (If the audio player doesn&#8217;t work, use this mp3 file.) Mark Tooley is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19497&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Renfroe of Good News on General Conference 2012</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/04/23/rob-renfroe-of-good-news-on-general-conference-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever benefits a restructuring The United Methodist Church may bring, it will not result in the UMC becoming more effective in its stated mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ, according to Rob Renfroe, the president of Good News, the oldest and largest renewal ministry within United Methodism. In a radio interview that aired April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19454&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should United Methodists agree to disagree on homosexuality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following statement was released April 13 by the Renewal and Reform Coalition, composed of Good News, the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church, Lifewatch, RENEW, Transforming Congregations, and UMAction. Links and subheadings have been added by MethodistThinker.com — Ed. - It’s that time again. General Conference will soon be here and all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19372&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will General Conference foster expanded ministry to women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Liza Kittle, president of RENEW, a network for evangelical women within the United Methodist Church. According to the group&#8217;s website, RENEW &#8220;is also a voice for renewal and reform of the Women&#8217;s Division, the governing body of United Methodist Women.&#8221; This commentary first appeared in a different form in the March/April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19297&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on April 1. He notes that in the days leading up to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had &#8220;instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the entire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19273&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: &#8216;Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/03/26/book-review-methodism-and-politics-in-the-twentieth-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following review is by Ray Nothstine, managing editor of Religion &#38; Liberty, a publication of the Acton Institute. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He also served on the staff of former Rep. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19146&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC&#8217;s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference), and he has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. He is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19183&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: March in Christian history</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2, 1791: Methodist founder John Wesley dies in London at age 87. At his death, the Methodist movement had 294 preachers and 71,668 members in Britain, plus 198 preachers and 43,265 members in America. Today Methodists number about 30 million worldwide. Among Mr. Wesley&#8217;s last words: &#8220;I&#8217;ll praise my maker&#8221; and &#8220;The best of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4428&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UMC restructuring: Power shifts, turf battles and trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC&#8217;s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference), and he has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. He is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19054&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: February in Christian history</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 4, 1906: Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is born in Breslau, Germany. As one of the leaders of Germany&#8217;s Confessing Church, he opposed the Nazis. Bonhoeffer was arrested and eventually hanged — just days before Allied troops liberated the concentration camp where he was held. His books include The Cost of Discipleship. Feb. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3726&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a goal of fostering &#8220;flourishing churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ,&#8221; the Fellowship of Presbyterians, a group of more than 500 theologically conservative congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has unveiled a new &#8220;denominational entity&#8221;: the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (ECO). The official unveiling occurred at a Jan. 18-20 Covenanting Conference in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18978&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Timothy Whitaker: United Methodists must stand against &#8216;violence of abortion&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 22 marked the 39th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’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&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18888&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should we turn control of UMC over to the Council of Bishops?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Joe M. Whittemore, a member of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s Connectional Table. Mr. Whittemore, a delegate to the 2012 UM General Conference, has chaired Committee on Episcopacy for the Southeastern Jurisdiction and has served as the Lay Leader of North Georgia Annual Conference. This opinion piece was originally published in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18721&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Christian responsibility&#8221; to affirm that racial segregation &#8220;is morally wrong and sinful,&#8221; King described nonviolence as &#8220;the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and human dignity.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18867&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United Methodists are well-liked, but to what end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC&#8217;s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18785&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) is celebrating its 28th birthday today. Society president Dick McClain recounts the founding: A small gathering of people met together in an airport hotel in St. Louis. Like any other meeting, this one had potential — potential to be hardly remembered just a few months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18752&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: January in Christian history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 1, 1622: The Roman Catholic church adopts January 1 as the beginning of the year, rather than March 25. Jan. 3, 1785: The Methodist &#8220;Christmas Conference&#8221; concludes at Baltimore, Md., having created the Methodist Episcopal Church in America (now the United Methodist Church). Francis Asbury (pictured kneeling) and Thomas Coke were elected as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3173&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MethodistThinker returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a five-month hiatus, MethodistThinker.com is returning to active status — but with significant changes. This blog has always been a labor-intensive enterprise, with a significant number of posts involving original reporting. Some posts were literally weeks (even months!) in the making. Now, because of other obligations, such a laborious approach to producing this blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=18694&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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