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A working preacher in Washington, D.C., wrestles with Scripture, the (sigh) United Methodist Church, (double-sigh) America, and his soul.
2016-03-19 18:53
Steve Swecker, editor of Zion's Herald, has begun a blog at www.faithwriterblog.com/. Swecker is an excellent editor and Zion's Herald is an important magazine. It is good to have him bloggi… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
On the last day (Sunday, July 17) of our time in Liberia, our hostess and guide Frances Porte invited us to attend worship with her. Her congregation, the First United Methodist Church of Ro… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Good News has issued a press release taking sides in the case of the Virginia pastor who was placed on involuntary leave of absence as the consequence of his refusal to allow an openly gay m… Read More
2005-07-24 01:41
By Dean Snyder and Jane MaloneGANTA, Liberia -- Sampson Nyanti is on his cell phone trying to get building suppliesdelivered from Monrovia. Workers are rebuilding Ganta Mission’s eleme… Read More
2005-07-21 20:29
By Dean Snyder and Jane MaloneMONROVIA, Liberia - It is quite likely that a United Methodist will become the first woman to be elected president of Liberia, according to interviews with facu… Read More
2005-07-20 22:32
After returning from Liberia I found a letter in my mailbox from the Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth, the president of Lifewatch and editor of its newsletter. He wrote in response to my July 3 post… Read More
2005-07-20 01:21
By Dean Snyder and Jane MaloneBUCHANAN, Liberia – “Give me pen, not gun” reads a hand-written poster on the cafeteria wall of J.F. Yancy School at Camphor Mission near Buch… Read More
2005-07-05 02:16
Tomorrow I leave for Liberia with a study team that will meet with workers and leaders of the Liberian labor movement. We will hopefully help to build a stronger relationship between the wor… Read More
2005-07-04 15:04
The Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality, or Lifewatch, is a caucus within the United Methodist Church that wants to change our church's stance on abortion.An unsigned ed… Read More
2005-07-03 11:50
I have been involved in two extended discussions about the resolution passed by the California-Nevada Conference defining sexual orientation as a status.One conversation has been happening h… Read More
2005-07-01 20:49
The California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church passed a resolution June 17 defining sexual orientation as a status. (See here also.)The exact wording of the resolution is: "… Read More
2005-07-01 17:31
Locusts and Honey discovered a news story in The Guardian, a British newspaper, entitled "Methodist leaders vote to bless gay couples."Then, the British Methodist Conference issued a stateme… Read More
2005-06-30 19:46
Spirituality has become a commodity for sale on the competitive capitalist free market.I was struck by this reality when I read Jeff Sharlet's profile of Ted Haggard, pastor of a magachurch… Read More
2005-06-30 02:10
Rev. Rachel Lieder Simeon is conference superintendent of the Alaska Missionary Conference, one of the few U.S. United Methodist conferences reporting growth in both membership and attendanc… Read More
2005-06-29 17:52
Ted Haggard (pictured right), pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Col., talks on the phone to President Bush or his staff every Monday. Haggard is president of the National Associ… Read More
2005-06-27 19:03
Dr. Paul Nixon serves as Conference Director of Congregational Development for the Alabama-West Florida Conference. His conference is one of the few United Methodist conferences reporting gr… Read More
2005-06-24 23:22
In response to recent posts a friend sent me this note:-----------------------------------Demographic research shows that the primary reason for the decline in membership in mainline churche… Read More
2005-06-24 14:40
Dr. Nancy Burgin Rankin serves as Director of Congregational Development for the Western North Carolina Conference. With half of U.S. conferences having announced their numbers for 2004, her… Read More
2005-06-23 15:06
Several years ago Jane and I were in Zimbabwe to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United Methodist Church there. About 10,000 people gathered nightly under a massive te… Read More
2005-06-21 15:23
This information is taken from the United Methodist News Service's 2005 annual conference reports as of today:North Central JurisdictionDakotas Annual ConferenceJune 8-11, Bismarck, N.D.Memb… Read More
2005-06-21 15:16
Yesterday I posted last year's membership and attendance numbers from the 37 annual conferences that have provided reports so far to United Methodist News Service (UMNS). UMNS awaits 36 addi… Read More
2005-06-17 22:11
Twenty-five years ago when I was a campus minister, one of the students in our group was determined to stop being gay. When everything else failed, he entered an aversion therapy program.He… Read More
2005-06-16 14:21
I was tempted to entitle this post "Is the IRD Part of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?" but decided that would be too sensationalistic.It is, however, the sort of question one is left asking a… Read More
2005-06-13 16:44
Sermon preached June 12 at Foundry United Methodist Church, Washington, DCI’d like us to pretend we are Baptists or Plymouth Brethren this morning and actually get out our Bibles and l… Read More
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