Dr. Carl Evans said the recent round of atheism authors are taking the same approach as fundamentalists: It’s “either … or.”
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A United Methodist Church Quadrennial Foci: Engaging in ministry with the poor.
A United Methodist has suggested that feeding the poor is like feeding stray animals, they’ll hang around and, what’s more, they’ll breed. He is particularly concerned that children from poorer families get free lunches. He believes that the single mother(s) working three jobs* needs to sign in at PTA meetings.
Read MoreProphets who walked among us: Hawley Lynn and I. DeQuincey Newman
Hawley Lynn was a short man with a giant’s courage to bear the Word of God. It fell his lot to be pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Pickens when Willie Earle was taken from his jail cell and lynched Feb. 17, 1947.
Read MoreTelling the Stories of Hurt in the Christian Community
In the 1980s, I went back to school at USC. Sitting with a few older students for coffee after an English class, someone cracked a gay slur. Fortunately before people had time to really laugh, one woman spoke out, “My son is gay.”
Read MoreYour apportionment giving at work—in Haiti
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti at 4:53 p.m. EST Jan. 12, left the Caribbean nation in shambles and rescuers and disaster teams scrambling to save lives. The death toll is expected to be more than 200,000.
Read MoreDancing in the rain—with help from Alston Wilkes and others
By Emily Cooper. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” This is the favorite reminder for a young woman who was arrested five times, beginning when she was 15.
Read MoreCaring about prisoners central to Parker Evatt
“Jesus was caring about people who were sick and in prison,” he said, when asked why we should care.
Read MoreLet’s play: Giving children faith-based play
Emerging after the age of “No Child Left Behind,” when parents and teacher were told they have to accelerate test scores, is an old idea with new implications and strategies: play.
Read MoreVance Ross – Preaching the Word
If your pastor’s sermon was full of fire Nov. 8, maybe it was because she or he had heard the Rev. Vance Ross preach as the Orders meeting a couple of days before.
Read MoreBishop White at the first Eben Taylor Memorial Lecture on Love
Referring to John Wesley’s ideal of spreading Scriptural holiness throughout the world, retired Bishop Woodie White said, “I hope there will be the continuing ministry of one Eben Taylor whose life demonstrated those words.”
Read MoreShalom
Three bishops, including the president of the Council of Bishops, came to Columbia to speak to 300 people – the majority of them the poor Jesus and John Wesley would have spoken to.
Read MoreGod’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action
Pastoral Letter (English), adopted November 3, 2009 at Lake Junaluska, NC, USA.
Read MoreGoing Tenting an Experience
“You have to experience it. Life at Indian Field Camp Meeting defies description,” it’s said.
Read MorePrayer: Oxygen for the Soul
A candle goes out when it is snuffed because it lacks oxygen. In like manner, prayer is the oxygen for the soul, said the Rev. Dr. Tom Albin, dean of the Upper Room Chapel in Nashville, TN.
Read MoreSeven churches worship together
Pews, chairs, doors, and hallways quickly filled at St. John’s United Methodist Church on Johns Island as four African- and three Anglo-American congregations gathered Aug. 30, a bright, hot, Sunday morning.
Read MoreReunion reunites black and white
A quiet, contemporary church with the feel of a small abbey set on a rural hill is bringing together divided spirits of the past and molding them into a deep bond of love.
Read MoreAmerican Christians Fail at Passing the Plate
The subject was health care reform and the TV camera was rolling as a S.C. man said he had health insurance and he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s. “It’s not my problem!” he said emphatically.
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