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Recently Read: Midnight in Dallas: What’s going on?
by Maria Dixon Hall Mother, mother There’s too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There’s far too many of you dying You know we’ve got to find a way To bring some lovin’ here today, eheh...
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Recently Read: An evening of joy; a morning of tragedy: will we ever wake up?
Dallas, Texas 1942, Wikimedia by Christy Thomas We’d had the most joyful of afternoons. After two interminable weeks in a non-weight bearing foot situation, my husband’s bandage was replaced with a...
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Recently Read: Jurisdictional Conferences Gear Up to Elect Bishops
Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS by Cynthia B. Astle Fifty-five candidates — including three openly gay clergy and a nominee who has been suspended pending charges — will vie for 15 bishop seats in five...
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Recently Read: Dallas Will Be Different
Photo by Union Coffee. By Michael Baughman I’ve suspected for a while that we live at the cliff’s edge of a new society. Growing up, I learned the names of cities important to the civil rights...
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by Rev. Dr. James C. Howell Voices are clamoring for a split in the United Methodist Church, with an increasing urgency given many recent events, most notably an episcopal election in the West. I was...
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Recently Read: No Center No Periphery: A Regional Approach To Mission
Courtesy of umcmission.org by Mande Muyombo I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare, unto all...
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Recently Read: Failure to launch – I planned a service for students. None came.
by Mark Yaconelli The advertisement in our church newsletter was simple and straightforward. “We need someone to direct the college prayer service.” I’d spent two years as a parishioner of the...
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Recently Read: Stretching, Not Tearing
by Nathan Mattox I just finished meeting with Bishop Karen Oliveto, a woman whose name you have possibly seen lately in the news. Some believe her election, in the words of our Bishop, Robert Hayes,...
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Recently Read: Finding Community With Bread Church – Local parish comes...
Pastor Cynthia Kepler-Karrer PHOTO BY JOHN ANDERSON by Melanie Haupt, Memorial United Methodist Church is an unassuming house of worship on Berkman Drive in Northeast Austin. The grounds are...
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Recently Read: “Consecration of Gay Bishop Against Church Law”
by Linda Bloom (UMNS) The consecration of a gay bishop violates church law, the top court of The United Methodist Church has ruled. However, the bishop “remains in good standing,” the Judicial Council...
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