Rural Minnesota Ministry | Readings for Sunday, July 2, 2017
Hello Everyone,I am back from vacation now. Cheryl and I traveled to Boise, Idaho, to visit my mom and spent ...
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GILESGATE JOURNAL | Return to Durham Day 2 – New York City in Five Hours
Taking full advantage of our 11 hour layover at JFK airport we headed in to New York City to spend ...
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General Board of Global Ministries | When Love Overcomes Terror
Amidst the violence and chaos perpetuated by Boko Haram, UMCOR is partnering with Mission 21 to provide more than 600 ...
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Mitchell Lewis | Covenant Inclusion and Greatness in Genesis
God called Abram and promised to make him a great nation with a great name. The LORD said to Abram: ...
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Rev. Brent L. White | Tell me again why the issue dividing the UMC isn’t “essential”?
Last April, I publicly disagreed with James Howell, a United Methodist pastor and Duke Divinity School lecturer (who used to ...
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Taylor Burton-Edwards – Equipping Disciples | Discipleship Ministries | Liturgy Man: What Additional Copyright Licenses Might a Congregation Need To Obtain? (Part 3 of 3)
Q&A with Liturgy Man is a series of 3-5 minute videos in which Taylor Burton-Edwards answers questions about United Methodist ...
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Laurie Haller | Flourishing in Ministry
Last Friday I went for an early morning run at Centennial Park in Nashville. I was attending a three-day meeting ...
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Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Responding to Misconceptions about the Bishops’ Commission
Members of the Bishops’ Commission on a Way Forward at their March meeting in Atlanta, COWF By Thomas Lambrecht The ...
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United Methodist Insight | Church Leaders Look at Possible U.S. Structure
Despite strong resistance to the idea at the 2016 General Conference, United Methodist leaders say that some kind of U.S ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | As goes Mississippi, so goes The #UMC, Part Two
The followup to a previous post yields the result and the difficult road ahead. As Went Mississippi A few months back, Hacking Christianity reported and commented on two large Mississippi congregations that were petitioning to leave The United Methodist Church ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | Catering to Culture: The Real Foundations of the WCA / 05: Being what they claim to hate
While deploring cultural accommodation, the WCA caucus group has embraced some of the worst aspects of American culture. This week: hypocrisy. To Become the Villain It happens all the time in the secular world: the people with full-throated opposition to ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | 12 Things Clergy can do to be good LGBTQ Allies
A guest post by an LGBTQ ministry candidate in the Washington DC area of The United Methodist Church to help straight clergy like me learn how to be better allies. Take a read! === 12 Tips for Clergy Allies T.C.Morrow ...
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