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Home Page | Sociologist-Pastor Takes Impartial Look at UMC’s Divide

October 10, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Dr. Dale McConkey applies principles of sociology research and John Wesley’s theological method to The United Methodist Church’s division over homosexuality in a new book with a fact-based focus.

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Home Page | South Carolina UMC Readies to Aid Community after Police Shooting

October 4, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Pisgah United Methodist Church is preparing to serve its Florence, S. C., community in the wake of one of the nation’s worst police shootings that took place barely a mile from the church campus.

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Home Page | Recovering from the Wound That Never Heals

September 19, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Institutional power structures in society and in church, in which women who speak out about sexual abuse they’ve suffered are disbelieved, must be overthrown by Christians committed to overcoming evil with good.

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Home Page | U. S. Conferences Waiting to Assess Damages from Big Storm

September 18, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Remnants of Hurricane Florence are still dropping rain on U.S. regions, and flooding continues to threaten many locations.

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Home Page | Wesley Bros: Of Videos and Cards

August 30, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Along with the new “animated Wesley” videos from United Methodist Communications, the Wesley Bros playing cards offer a surprising tool for teaching Methodist history, writes Cynthia B. Astle.

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Home Page | I’m Religious AND Spiritual – and So Are You

August 29, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

A new “religious typology” offered by the Pew Research Center suffers from a basic flaw – it fails to recognize that it’s possible to be both religious and spiritual, writes Cynthia B. Astle.

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Home Page | Western Wildfires, Eastern Flooding Threaten United States

August 9, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

With 127 wildfires burning in the West and flash floods continuing to threaten the East in the United States, United Methodists are urged to continue supporting the church’s efforts at disaster relief and recovery.

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Home Page | Complaint Against Jeff Sessions Dismissed as ‘Political, not Personal’

August 3, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Alabama-West Florida Conference leaders determined that the complaints brought against the U.S. attorney general referred to actions related to the performance of his public service, not personal behaviors.

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Home Page | Could Challenging Our Assumptions Be the Answer for UMC Unity?

July 20, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

A talk by the Rev. Adam Hamilton on interpreting the Bible offers a way to keep the United Methodist Church together: dropping our assumptions about scripture and one another.

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Home Page | Once More, with Feelings

July 18, 2018 By Cynthia B. Astle Leave a Comment

Panelists at the July 16-18 Uniting Methodists’ conference in Dallas spoke with deep emotion about being accepted by the church and about their devotion to seeing the church stay together.

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