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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Jeffrey Walton |Rick Plasterer
This past week IRD hosted Ukrainian church pastors for a lunch and discussion on the state of religion in Ukraine. We heard remarkable stories of suffering, faith and courage. Video of the conversation is available below from IRD’s YouTube channel.
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2 months ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Sarah Stewart |Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley
Last week at the national March for Life, I walked with an evangelical pastor co-leading a successful church plant. Raised in a United Methodist (now Global Methodist) congregation in Tennessee, this pastor chose to plant a non-denominational congregation in Washington, DC. The church is overwhelmingly composed of young, early career congregants. They rent space from a mainline Presbyterian church with a beautiful traditional building but a much smaller congregation.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Sarah Stewart |Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley
Jesus’ humanness confirms and restores the dignity of all persons, according to an Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) bishop preaching at a prayer service preceding the annual National March for Life.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Mark Tooley |Bethany Moy
I enjoy the opportunity to visit Anglican churches during my travels and experience what might otherwise be overlooked at my own parish. It wasn’t always this way: church visits when on vacation as a child aren’t something that I recall. Now, I rarely miss a Sunday – with the exception of a brief visit to Saudi Arabia this past October, which, unsurprisingly, lacks publicly accessible church services.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Riley Case |Mark Tooley |Bethany Moy
Time for a shout-out to Anabaptism, a Protestant wing of the church marking its 500th year anniversary this January, 2025. The marker traces to the time in 1525 when Geoge Blaurock, a Catholic priest, was baptized (re-baptized, actually) by Conrad Breubel in the home of Felix Manz in Zurich, Switzerland. This did not go down well to the religious (and political) authorities of the day. Manz was martyred (intentionally drowned) and others expelled and persecuted.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Bethany Moy |Ryan N. Danker |James Diddams
Articles related to United Methodist disaffiliation, local church closures, General Conference, and the new Global Methodist Church were among readers’ favorites as Juicy Ecumenism closed out another year as the Institute on Religion & Democracy blog of church and culture news and opinion. Below are the most widely read articles, in ascending order. 10. What’s United Methodist General Conference Impact?
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ministrywatch.com | Jeffrey Walton
Membership in the Presbyterian Church (USA) fell further in 2023, according to statistics released last week by the denomination’s Interim Unified Agency, which succeeds the former Office of the General Assembly. Total membership declined by 45,932, or 4%, to 1,094,733 in the most recent reporting year. Presbyterians are older and more likely to be white than the overall U.S. population, with the denomination listing 87.85% as white and 33.46% as over the age of 70.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Methodist Voices |Sarah Carter |Mark Tooley
Membership in the Presbyterian Church (USA) fell further in 2023, according to statistics released today by the denomination’s Interim Unified Agency, which succeeds the former Office of the General Assembly. Total membership declined by 45,932, or 4 percent, to 1,094,733 in the most recent reporting year. Presbyterians are older and more likely to be white than the overall U.S. population, with the denomination listing 87.85 percent as white and 33.46 percent as over the age of 70.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Mark Tooley |Methodist Voices
The question, Dietrich Bonhoeffer would insist, isn’t whether to love my neighbor. It isn’t even whether to love my enemy as my neighbor. The question is how to love when one neighbor—whom I am called to love—is kicking to death another neighbor—whom I am also called to love—without cause. The duty of neighbor love can be simply carried out when the situation is without complexity—that is, when there isn’t a competing duty.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Jeffrey Walton |Methodist Voices |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart
Anglicans were justifiably preoccupied earlier this month with the shock announcement by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby that he is to resign in the wake of the Makin Review that exposed a conspiracy of silence about the abuses of barrister John Smyth. Annual release of data from the Episcopal Church’s 2023 parochial reports has mostly been overlooked (it was dropped at 6:30 p.m. on the Friday before the Veterans Day holiday weekend) but there is a trove of numbers worth examining.
