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MethodistThinker.com has provided original reporting on many stories. Those reports are linked below.

• Call to Action member Jorge Acevedo: We must foster vital congregations or ‘we do not have a future with hope’ | June 13, 2011
• Pro-homosexuality foundation pours millions into Catholic and mainline Protestant dissident groups (by David Fischler) | April 8, 2011
• Sacred Agent Man: Singer-songwriter has unusual music ministry | April 1, 2011
• Breaking the covenant: Why aren’t ‘Reconciling’ churches being held to account? (by Wesley Putnam) | March 21, 2011
• Steve Wende: Doctrinal orthodoxy should be deciding factor in choosing GC delegates | Jan. 28, 2011
• United Methodists praying, speaking, and marching for life | Jan. 19, 2011
• GC 2012 delegates set at 988 — Philippines gains delegates despite large membership loss | Jan. 13, 2011
• D.C. attorney general urges court to ‘alter and amend’ GBCS ruling | Nov. 8, 2010
• Polling data: Mainline Protestants going strongly for GOP | Nov. 2, 2010
• United Methodist Judicial Council convenes for fall session | Oct. 28, 2010
• In embracing homosexual marriage, Foundry UMC rejects UM boundaries, breaks with two millennia of church teaching | Oct. 4, 2010
• Prominent UM layman offers analysis of amendments outcome | July 12, 2010
• Claremont president: Christians shouldn’t evangelize people of other faiths | July 6, 2010
• In GBCS article, UM elder argues against celibacy for single clergy | June 30, 2010
• Bishop Scott Jones: Rethinking the path to a worldwide UMC | June 23, 2010
• UM seminary embraces non-Christian faiths, will train Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis | June 14, 2010
• UMW leaders, UM bishops disparage Arizona immigration law, rally for ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ | May 19, 2010
• UM renewal leader: ‘The UMC is worth fighting for’ | April 7, 2010
• United Methodist Church facing health bill fallout | March 31, 2010
• House Speaker thanks UMC for help in passing health bill | March 24, 2010
• Why the United Methodist Church cannot condone homosexuality | March 15, 2010
• Defying denomination, UM church in D.C. offers to perform same-sex weddings | March 4, 2010
• UM pro-life group urges Sen. Ben Nelson: ‘Do no harm’ | Jan. 27, 2010
• ‘Church and Society’ decries pro-life amendment to health bill | Nov. 20, 2009
• How did the UMC come to define health care as a ‘right’? | Nov. 11, 2009
• Judicial Council overturns bishop’s ruling on sexuality statement | Nov. 3, 2009
• UM Judicial Council to rule on sexuality resolution, apportionments | Oct. 26, 2009
• Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ | Oct. 12, 2009
• The Mission Society celebrates 25 years | Sept. 14, 2009
• Board of Church and Society sex-ed writer: Sex outside of marriage can be ‘moral, ethical’ | Sept. 4, 2009
• After feedback from Bishop Palmer, UMNS revises amendments story | July 31, 2009
• Transforming Congregations to merge with Exodus International | July 17, 2009
• Good News projects defeat of controversial amendments | July 14, 2009
• Sexuality resolution not at variance with Discipline, bishop rules | July 8, 2009
• A salute to James Heidinger of Good News | July 3, 2009
• In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy | June 29, 2009
• North Georgia overwhelmingly disapproves restructuring amendments | June 18, 2009
• A ‘procedural’ argument against Amendment I | June 15, 2009
• Leaders in North Georgia, Holston urge defeat of re-structuring amendments | June 2, 2009
• African UM leader on amendments: ‘We should have been consulted’ | May 12, 2009
• Judicial Council says no to same-sex marriage, approves Bush Center at SMU | April 27, 2009
• UM Judicial Council convenes for Spring session | April 22, 2009
• Maxie Dunnam, Eddie Fox release videos on proposed amendments | April 17, 2009
• ‘Church and Society’ urges repeal of ‘conscience’ rule for healthcare workers | April 3, 2009
• Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ | March 26, 2009
• Update on the ‘Church and Society’ court case | March 19, 2009
• Wesleyan Christian Advocate to end publication this month | March 9, 2009
• John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC | March 4, 2009
• Proposed amendments would separate UMC into ‘national entities’ | Feb. 27, 2009
• North Georgia UM pastor is ‘Chaplain of the Year’ | Feb. 5, 2009
• Wesleyan Christian Advocate to ‘cease publication’; paper may merge with UM Reporter | Feb. 3, 2009
• Billy Abraham on United Methodism: ‘There is no common faith among us’ | Jan. 29, 2009
• Church and Society withdraws support for Freedom of Choice Act | Jan. 2, 2009
• Source documents in the Methodist Building Trust case | Dec. 5, 2008
• ‘Church and Society’ to Obama: End protections for unborn | Nov. 17, 2008
• Judicial Council sends controversial cases back to conferences | Oct. 29, 2008
• General Board of Church and Society goes to court | Oct. 20, 2008
• New research: What Americans really believe | Oct. 1, 2008
• Bishop Mike Watson’s Installation sermon | Sept. 8, 2008
• Joe Whittemore: ‘Enough is enough’ | Sept. 3, 2008
• Southeastern Jurisdiction Bishops assigned | July 19, 2008
• Paul Leeland elected bishop | July 17, 2008

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