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Sam Hodges

Sam Hodges writes for United Methodist News Service.

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Carlton Minnick, influential UMC bishop, dies at 96

Carlton “C.P.” Minnick, a former president of the United Methodist council of bishops, died May 4. He was 96....
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UMC fossil fuels divestment debate returns

Should United Methodist institutions divest of fossil fuel company stocks as a matter of Christian principle?...
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Methodist woman donates 25 acres for Arkansas bird sanctuary

Betty Hinshaw had always lived in cities when her husband decided, in 1956, that they should move to rural North­west Arkansas. She made him promise there wouldn’t be snakes....
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UMC pastor honors Black church with Simon of Cyrene musical

Henry Masters has a thing for Simon of Cyrene....
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Claremont School of Theology ordered to offer land to neighboring colleges

According to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Claremont School of Theology must offer its Claremont, California, campus for sale to the Claremont Colleges, a neighboring consortium of schools...
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UMC to pay $30 million in historic Boy Scout settlement

Negotiators for the United Methodist Church have reached a settlement for the denomination to pay $30 million as part of the Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy reorganization plan....
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Video of UM church incident goes viral, causes fallout

Canceled worship services. Closed Face­book accounts. Extra security at churches....
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Influential UMC bibliographer Kenneth Rowe dies at 84

Kenneth Rowe, a historian who was known as the leading United Methodist bibliographer, died on October 8. He was 84....
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United Methodist Publishing House sells campus for $24.5 million

The United Methodist Publishing House announced on October 4 that the sale of its Nashville property has been completed, at a price of $24.5 million....
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Beverly Shamana, pioneering Methodist bishop, dies at 81

Beverly Shamana, the second Black woman to become a bishop in the United Methodist Church, died August 1....

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United Methodist minister takes on QAnon through podcast

Derek Kubilus is no cookie-cutter United Methodist minister....
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Planned traditionalist Methodist denomination gets name

Traditionalists committed to leaving the United Methodist Church have chosen “Global Methodist Church” as the name for the denomination they plan to launch....
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Deaf ministries flourish with virtual worship

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the array of worship services offered by Lovers Lane United Methodist Church included one in American Sign Lan­guage....
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UMC musician’s protest hymn goes viral

Many United Methodist clergy gave Pentecost Sunday sermons on the scourge of racism, prompted by the latest high-profile killing of a black man in police custody....
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UMC pastor Kirbyjon Cald­well resumes preaching following guilty wire fraud plea

Kirbyjon Cald­well, the former senior pastor of Hou­ston’s Wind­sor Village United Meth­odist Church—the de­nomination’s largest in membership—surrendered his clergy credentials weeks before pleadi...
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At UM-Forward gathering, United Methodists consider a new “Liberation Methodist Church”

Some came wanting a new denomination. Others said they prefer, for now, to keep working within the United Methodist Church....

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