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3 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker
Mark Ryan, Adjunct Professor of Religion and Culture at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and formerly Director of the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute spoke on the recently published (2024) book by Richard and Christopher Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality within the Biblical Story, at the annual L’Abri Conference in Rochester, Minnesota on February 15.
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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker
A panel of Latin American human rights activists discussed the challenges to religious freedom in three Latin American countries at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 5. Kristina Arriaga, formerly Executive Director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom moderated the panel. CubaMario Felix Lleonart, a Cuban human rights activist and formerly a Baptist pastor in Cuba spoke first.
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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker |Methodist Voices
Here’s my interview with Professor Mike Austin of Eastern Kentucky University, co-editor of QAnon, Chaos and the Cross: Christians and Conspiracy Theories, Soundcloud audio, YouTube video and transcript below. I hope you will find this talk informative.
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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker |Methodist Voices |Mark Tooley
The Institute on Religion and Democracy hosted the Rev. Dr. Richard Allen Hyde, Pastor of Community United Church of Christ of San Carlos, to deliver our Wednesday Worship sermon on March 26. Dr. Hyde, a Congregationalist minister, spoke to the IRD staff on the passage of Isaiah 55:3-11 and “Before We Were the Land’s.”Video of the worship service can be accessed below as well as text of the sermon.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Wyatt Flicker |Methodist Voices |Mark Tooley
[Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of brief reflections authored by current and past interns about their experience at the Institute on Religion & Democracy. For more information about IRD’s internship program, click here.]In the summer of 2024, I interned with the Institute on Religion & Democracy, supported by the Fund for American Studies. At the IRD, I planned events, penned articles for Juicy Ecumenism, and worked on church renewal projects.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Stewart |Rick Plasterer |Wyatt Flicker |Mark Tooley
The United Methodist Church’s (UMC) official public policy arm is partnering with an LGBTQ caucus to offer pastors a course in Queer Theology. Offered by the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) and the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), the course is among the latest changes following last year’s United Methodist General Conference.
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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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Jan 21, 2025 | 
juicyecumenism.com | Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer |Wyatt Flicker
Amidst ceremony and tradition, the 60th U.S. Presidential Inauguration and a Washington National Cathedral service the following morning attended by President Donald Trump featured prayers for the nation and for elected officials. The January 20 inauguration ceremony included prayers led by both evangelical and Roman Catholic clergy, while the prayer service held at the Episcopal cathedral had neither.
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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.
