From The Pew | Under The Umbrella of God’s Grace……..
This has not been a good week for our nation. Old wounds have been reopened and we now know that ...
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This Day With God | The Week Ahead
This week, we will finish the study of the book of Exodus and share more thoughts. Below are some questions ...
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Allan R. Bevere | Scriptures and Prayer for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Old Testament: Genesis 45:1-15 or Isaiah 56:1, 6-8Psalter: Psalm 133 or Psalm 67Epistle: Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32Gospel: Matthew 15:10-28___God of the ...
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Be the change | Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (Guest Post) – Cory Moese
A few posts ago, I put links to other clergy in the Central Texas Conference who are doing some blogging ...
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Virtual Methodist | Journey with Jonah: A Postcard from Nineveh
I didn't send any postcards on my own holidays this year, but on my return I "found" this postcard waiting ...
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The Thoughtful Pastor | It’s about slavery not State’s Rights: stop putting those people on pedestals
Do not buy into the lie that the Confederacy was about State’s Rights. Not true. It was all about keeping ...
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Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Closer to a Way Forward
By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht Commission Members at Work – COWF Photo Last week the Bishops’ Commission on a Way Forward ...
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United Methodist Insight | Social Principles Revision Process Gets Under Way
Team convenors for revision of the United Methodist Social Principles met in May with Church and Society staff to begin ...
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Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: A Review
By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht The study guide produced by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, entitled Unity of ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | Why Christians shouldn’t make fun of poverty culture
The poor will always be with you–but that doesn’t make them the butt of jokes. A pair of black slacks Growing up in Oklahoma City in the 1980s/90s, I typically wore my one pair of black slacks to church. My ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | The #UMC Covenant will be Stronger in #NextMethodism
Covenant Considerations As promised, here’s my contribution to the conversation about #NextMethodism (see previous coverage here–includes a partial list of entries by others). The key word over the past 8 years or so for United Methodism has been “Covenant”–as in ...
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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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