It is often an allegation that progressives have no scriptural authority to determine that women can be ministers, that divorcees …
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Chocolat: Work Out Your Own Redemption
For our Wednesday night program at my local church, we watched some clips from the 2000 film Chocolat. The film is about a …
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When Large Church Pastors take the #UMC hostage
A group of 60 unnamed conservative pastors on a conference call released a statement calling for study of schism. Here's what they …
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Tom Oden’s Two-Point Test for #UMC Schism
Rev. Dr. Thomas Oden, a fellow Oklahoman, is the primary intellectual force behind the renewal groups in the United Methodist …
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