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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Wyatt Flicker |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Jeffrey Walton
An LGBT caucus group within the United Methodist Church is seeking to construct an ecclesial response to Trump Administration moves to end federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
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2 months ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Stewart |Mark Tooley |Sarah Carter |Jeffrey Walton
The West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church (WVUMC) faces a significant legal challenge following backlash from changes made at last year’s General Conference. Officials with the WVUMC, including Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, her immediate past predecessor Bishop Sandra Stiener-Ball (pictured), and all of the conference’s district superintendents are named in the lawsuit.
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2 months ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Sarah Carter |Sarah Stewart |Jeffrey Walton
The death of renowned United Methodist theologian Richard Hays of Duke Divinity School perhaps marks the end of the neo-Anabaptist, pacifist era. His obituaries all cited his very recent liberalized views on sexuality, overturning his previous more traditionalist views explained in his 1996 A Moral Vision of the New Testament. But his pacifism, as also explained in that book, was perhaps more significant and revealing.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer |Wyatt Flicker |Jeffrey Walton
Today honors Martin Luther King Jr. He was a chronic adulterer who betrayed his wife and ordination vows. He kept a Communist Party USA member as a close advisor. He rejected Christian orthodoxy while in seminary. MLK was also a great American. He successfully persuaded the nation that the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution apply to all people. He insisted that Christianity and natural law required dignity and decency for all.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Wyatt Flicker |Mark Tooley |Jeffrey Walton
Assisted suicide has been an issue before the general public for at least the last generation but is now emerging as a more potent and insidious threat in the 2020s. It is potent because more jurisdictions have legalized it or are considering legalizing it (most notably Great Britain), giving the proposal some momentum.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Wyatt Flicker |Mark Tooley |Jeffrey Walton
Both in the United States and the United Kingdom, the topic of “medical aid in dying,” or assisted suicide, has had a strong public resurgence in the last year. Eleven jurisdictions permit the practice in the United States, with bills pending in five others. In the United Kingdom, a bill allowing access to assisted suicide passed the House of Commons with the support of, among 328 others, the current Labor PM Keir Starmer and former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Jeffrey Walton
Supposedly the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, over whether evolution could be taught in public schools, embarrassed Christian “fundamentalists” out of public life until the 1970s. The reality is more complex. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple tells the story of the trial but does not reflect deeply about its long-term impact on religious public witness.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Jeffrey Walton |Bethany Moy |Ryan N. Danker
Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral showcased the best of American civil religion and of American public Christianity. Majestic hymns and choir, beautiful liturgy, solemnity, and reverence in a magnificent gothic sanctuary, with the armed forces honoring the deceased commander in chief. Former presidents and vice presidents who oppose and dislike each other sat respectfully together.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Carter |Sarah Stewart |Jeffrey Walton
Below is an address by Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, evangelical theologian, author, and Lecturer-At-Large for World Vision International prepared for a forum sponsored by The Institute on Religion & Democracy and The National Association of Evangelicals at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 1983. I have transcribed these words and made them available to readers in light of their continued relevance.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Carter |Sarah Stewart |Jeffrey Walton |Methodist Voices
Walter Kansteiner was the Director of Economic Studies at the Institute on Religion & Democracy in the late 1980s before serving in the State Department and becoming the 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Below is his writing on Liberation Theology and R.H. Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture. LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND R. H. NIEBUHR’S CHRIST IN CULTUREWalter Kansteiner | Christian EthicsOctober 20, 1985In 1951 H.
