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U.S. National Parks, Yosemite Falls & Perceiving God’s Glory
The week before Memorial Day, I vacationed with family in California. Instead of lying on balmy beaches, we visited several famous national parks: Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, and Death...
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Miroslav Volf Embraces “Contending Particular Universalisms”
Miroslav Volf spoke at the St. Olaf College Two-Day Symposium on Religious and Political Disagreement. Volf focused on negotiating difference without sacrificing one’s identity in a pluralistic...
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Former UTS President Discusses Religious Liberty and Wesleyan Theology
“Two-thirds of the world does not have this but desperately yearns for it,” begins Dr. Wendy Deichmann of United Theological Seminary in her first of three recently published videos on religious...
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Growing United Methodism in Vietnam
Did you know United Methodism is growing in Vietnam and throughout Indochina? There’s rightly lots of talk about growing United Methodism in Africa, which soon will have a majority of the global...
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Christian Doctrine, Sex & Nashville Statement
Any public declaration, if effective, will provoke wide controversy and indignation. So the recent Nashville Statement from scores of Evangelical leaders affirming traditional church teaching on...
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7 Economic Lessons on the Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Voyage
The Pilgrims sailed for America on the Mayflower 397 years ago on September 6, 1620. Despite difficulties, their ultimately successful colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts, left an important legacy for...
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A Post-Reformation Understanding of the True Church as the People of God
Understanding the Protestant Reformation and its impact on both Catholics and Protestants, and where Christians should go from here, was the topic of a conference sponsored by The Center for...
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Halloween, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Christian Eschatology
Halloween spending in America rose to an estimated $9.1 billion dollars this year, up from $8.4 billion in 2016. This trend represents a logical extension of secular American materialism. Yet...
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What Wesleyans Can Learn from Lenin
Last month was the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution led by Russian Marxist Vladimir Lenin, from which rivers of blood and tides of untold human suffering flowed across the 20th century. So...
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Crosspoint UMC: Putting the “Nice” in Niceville
We recently reported on the latest list of the United Methodist Church’s largest, fastest-growing congregations in the United States. In this renewed series, UMAction Director John Lomperis interviews...
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Trashing Megachurches
Trashing megachurches is often popular. According to the standard stereotype, they’re big exurban factories resembling car dealerships with giant parking lots and giant American flags, catering to...
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Martin Luther King, the KGB & God
Yesterday’s federal holiday for MLK included the usual homages but, as usual, little reference to the civil rights martyr’s Cold War role. He emerged in the 1950s at the near height of USA tensions...
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Standing up to Atheist Bullying: Remembering R.C. Sproul
Fats Domino, Dick Gregory, Chuck Berry, Mary Tyler Moore, Hugh Hefner, and other rich and famous people all passed away in 2017. When he finally crossed the river in December at the age of 78,...
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Mark Charles: Church Has “Prostituted Itself Out to the Empire”
For several years now, Native American activist Mark Charles has spoken at churches and campuses across the United States, decrying America as built on racism. Most recently, while speaking to...
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Liberal United Methodist Caucus Promote Gender Confusion among Children,...
The Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) is the main unofficial liberal caucus in the United Methodist Church, and its main focus is on forcing United Methodists to accept LGBTQ lifestyles...
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Pastor Cliff Wall: On Criticizing the Church
Rev. Cliff Wall is an elder in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and serves as the pastor of Clarksbury UMC in Harmony, NC. He also preaches several revivals at...
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Your Response Needed on Proposed Rewrite of UMC Social Principles!
The United Methodist Church’s controversial, aggressively liberal D.C. lobby office, the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), is pursuing an ambitious project of comprehensively rewriting the...
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Oxford’s Nigel Biggar: Anglicanism Sustains Democracy & Religious Freedom
In May, Professor Nigel Biggar spoke at the McDonald Centre’s annual conference and discussed the role of the Christian Church in developing and maintaining a politically liberal society. The McDonald...
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5 Trends Christian Millennials Must Stop Doing
Today’s guest author is John Wesley Reid, a Christian blogger and political analyst based in Washington, D.C. Reid served in the United States Marines and received a degree in political science from...
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Theological Coordinates to the State of Israel
Last Wednesday, Dr. Douglas Farrow, Professor of Theology and Christian Thought at McGill University, presented a lecture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. titled, “Why Israel...
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