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		<title>Bishop Timothy Whitaker: United Methodists must stand against &#8216;violence of abortion&#8217;</title>
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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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18888&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18721&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLK’s address to the Methodist Student Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18867&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United Methodists are well-liked, but to what end?</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/01/11/united-methodists-are-nice-but-do-we-still-have-the-message-of-new-life/</link>
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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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18785&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to The Mission Society</title>
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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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18752&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=3173&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18694&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/07/25/farewell-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three years and 236 posts — including 30 podcasts and more than 60 pieces of original reporting — MethodistThinker.com is going on hiatus for an indefinite period. The ThinkerTwitter and Facebook feeds will continue, albeit on a reduced schedule. Thank you for reading MethodistThinker.com. - Update: I invite you to listen to a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18583&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If defiance continues, United Methodism may come crashing down</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/07/15/united-methodism-may-come-crashing-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:00:57 +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&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18596&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Mark Tooley, author of &#8216;Taking Back the United Methodist Church&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final podcast of our spring season features a conversation with Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010). To listen (7 min.), click the arrow on the audio player below — or download an mp3 file (6.7 MB). For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18543&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word from Mr. Wesley: Power over sin</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/07/01/a-word-from-mr-wesley-power-over-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “The Marks of the New Birth,” Sermon 18 among Mr. Wesley’s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18494&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outcome of DeLong trial likely to exacerbate disunity of UMC</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/06/27/outcome-of-delong-trial-likely-to-exacerbate-disunity-of-umc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post is by blogger and church planter David Fischler. He writes frequently on topics related to mainline Protestantism at his blog, The Reformed Pastor. A New Jersey native, David was born of Jewish parents and became a Christian in college after reading the Bible for the first time. He served as a United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18420&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Mack Stokes: Holiness in human sexuality</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/06/23/bishop-mack-stokes-holiness-in-human-sexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issues related to human sexuality are front and center in both the culture and the church. In this post, excerpted from the out-of-print book Scriptural Holiness For the United Methodist Christian (Discipleship Resources, 1987), retired UM Bishop Mack B. Stokes discusses sexuality from the standpoint of both the historic teaching of the Christian faith and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18360&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Rob Renfroe on &#8216;The Truth About God&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This edition of the Methodist Thinker Mini-Podcast features a teaching excerpt from the Rev. Rob Renfroe, pastor of discipleship at The Woodlands (Texas) United Methodist Church and the president of the UM renewal ministry Good News. The excerpt is from a 2009 sermon series, &#8220;The Trouble with the Truth,&#8221; preached at The Woodlands UMC . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18323&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Action member: We must foster vital congregations or &#8216;we do not have a future with hope&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s Call to Action Steering Team says the team&#8217;s task was to be &#8220;prophetic&#8221; and to avoid the &#8220;terminal niceness&#8221; that has long inhibited realistic discussion of the challenges facing the denomination. &#8220;We were asked to do a deep study of the church,&#8221; the Rev. Jorge Acevedo, lead pastor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18249&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/06/07/steve-wende-electing-delegates-gc-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General Conference &#8220;who will represent God-honoring, Kingdom-focused, Christ-first, biblically strong positions.&#8221; He says that the outcome of this year&#8217;s elections will determine whether or not the future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18215&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word from Mr. Wesley: &#8216;You must be born again&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/06/01/word-from-wesley-you-must-be-born-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from &#8220;The New Birth,&#8221; Sermon 45 among Mr. Wesley&#8217;s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has been slightly updated, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18123&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast — George Hunter: Can the once-great Methodist movement become a movement again?</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/05/26/george-hunter-can-once-great-methodist-movement-be-a-movement-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. George Hunter of Asbury Seminary details how Methodism, at least in its institutional United Methodist form, has become what it was once a reaction against. In his remarks, recorded earlier this year at United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. Hunter asks if &#8220;a once great movement&#8221; — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18153&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Teykl on becoming a &#8216;Presence-based church&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/05/19/terry-teykl-presence-based-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Terry Teykl, author of The Presence-Based Church, My Most Wanted: 40 Days to Pray for the Lost, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. An elder in the Texas Annual Conference, Dr. Teykl is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging churches to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=17560&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast — Bishop Lindsey Davis: Will the UMC have the courage to do what needs to be done?</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/05/13/bishop-lindsey-davis-will-umc-have-courage-to-do-what-needs-to-be-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 10:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Bishop Lindsey Davis of the Kentucky Annual Conference says the United Methodist Church must repent of its missional lethargy and re-commit itself to the purposes of God in Jesus Christ if it hopes to have renewed life. In his remarks, recorded last fall at a meeting of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&amp;blog=4447145&amp;post=18013&amp;subd=methodistthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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