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Written: 7/18/2008 By Linda Green July 18, 2008 | DALLAS (UMNS) Lowry, 58, executive director of new church development and transformation of the Southwest Texas Annual Conference, was elected July 18. He will fill one of the vacancies created in the denomination's South Central College of Bishops by the retire...
Written: 7/18/2008 July 18, 2008 (Dallas) - Rev. Jim Dorff was elected tonight as a bishop in the United Methodist Church. Dorff received 187 votes of 292 cast in the 22nd ballot of the South Central Jurisdictional Conference. Cheryl Johnson-Bell received 97 votes. One hundred and seventy-six votes...
Written: 7/17/2008 Earl Bledsoe has been elected to the episcopacy of the United Methodist Church on the South Central Jurisdiction's 3rd ballot. With 289 eligible ballots, 174 votes were needed for election. Bishop Bledsoe received 186 votes. The son of a United Methodist pastor, Bishop Bledsoe has ...
Written: 7/14/2008 Little Rock, AR (July 14, 2008) -- The position of The United Methodist Church in Arkansas on the lottery amendment proposal is clear, according to Rev. Roger Glover, co-chair of United Methodists Against Gambling and senior pastor of Dardanelle United Methodist Church. “It’s a bad ...
Commentary: Deliberating under the influence (of too little sleep) at GC 2008
Wrap-up: General Conference closes with message of hope after addressing budget, social issues
Delegates reject petitions aimed at ineffective clergy
Assembly approves $642 million churchwide budget
Bishop Ward: Wait, watch, receive God's spirit
Prayer room serves as 'space of quieting and slowing'
Judicial Council elects first woman president
Written: 4/30/2008 By Kathy L. Gilbert*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) Christians in the United States "have had an epidural" and are not feeling the birthing pains the rest of the world feels, said Faith McDonnell, an expert on religious persecution.Citing Mark 13:8, McDonnell said Jesus warned Christians ...
Written: 4/30/2008 By Robin Russell*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) Delegates to the 2008 General Conference on April 30 rejected changes to the United Methodist Social Principles that would have acknowledged that church members disagree on homosexuality. Delegates instead adopted a minority report that r...
Written: 4/30/2008 By J. Richard Peck*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS)After a long and emotional debate, the 2008 General Conference voted April 30 to retain statements in the Social Principles that the "United Methodist Church does not condone the practice of homosexuality and considers this practice incompa...
Written: 4/30/2008 April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) The number of people experiencing The United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly goes far beyond a few thousand people in the heart of Texas.People in 48 countries have been going online to watch the business sessions, worship services and special e...
Written: 4/30/2008 By Yvette Moore*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) What we do in worship matters. That's a guiding principle shaping the sights, sounds, feel and movement experienced in the physically engaging worship services of the 2008 United Methodist General Conference. "Worship helps form us. The que...
Written: 4/30/2008 By Kathy L. Gilbert*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) A proposed new Social Creed for The United Methodist Church became a "companion litany" instead after action by the denomination's lawmaking body on April 30.A task force under the leadership of the United Methodist Board of Church and S...
Four jurisdictions will each lose one bishop under new plan
Written: 4/30/2008 By Neill Caldwell*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) Legislative petitions to direct how the Judicial Council organizes and how it works are unconstitutional, says The United Methodist Church's top court. But requiring the entire court to be present to rule on the constitutionality of Genera...
Written: 4/30/2008 By Linda Green*April 30, 2008 | FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) Africa University is a uniting, connectional dream come true. That's the message delegates to the denomination's legislative assembly received during a report from its nearly 16-year-old Pan-African institution. Betty Musau Kaz... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
