A new logo for the #Methodist Church?

#JohnChivington led the #SandCreekMassacre , also known as the Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians. 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre

He was also a #Methodist pastor and a #Mason.

#ResistanceGenealogy
#Histodons

@mattsheffield
I learned a milder version of this in as a child at #Methodist summer camp: "We believers are coals in a fire. We must stick with our own kind and avoid outsiders or our fire will go out."
#Christianity

I find a great deal of inspiration from Poetry Magazine through the Poetry Foundation. Each month brings a treasure trove of poems written most often by writers from the margins. The poems have a deep impact on how I preach.

I often encounter poems I do not understand. Striving in my cisgender male way, my heart is opened. It's a hope which correlates with the experience of first century followers of Jesus. It offers an antidote to empire.

#poetry #inclusion #racism #lgbtqia #Methodist

#Methodist Bishop: Time to move from rancor to revival
https://www.umnews.org/en/news/bishop-time-to-move-from-rancor-to-revival

I was raised as a #Methodist in Qld. It didn’t take.

I’ve never been religious at all.

Yet, here I am more than 50 years after I last went to church, listening to one of my favourite albums, #Rockwiz - The #Christmas Album. In February… lol

@cridge17
In the #Pentecostal church we were expected to give a #Testimony about our depraved life before being #BornAgain. We were in the company of former mobsters and prostitutes. I felt inadequate because I didn't feel born again and in my previous life I was a #Methodist. The congregation was kind and accepting anyway.

Countryside United #Methodist #Church welcomes first #indigenous #bishop
https://www.wibw.com/2023/02/11/countryside-united-methodist-church-appoints-first-indigenous-bishop/

https://forward.com/culture/535444/he-gets-us-ads-christian-jesus-super-bowl/

This is weird... I know in my Christians days I would have seen these differently, but today this ad campaign seems surreal. Why worry so much about one's emotional connection to a historic figure (even a likable one like #Jesus )? Worth spending $20M? I just don't get it.

Also it's weird that there is a double #Oklahoma connection to these #SuperBowl ads as they are funded by Hobby Lobby and by The Servant Foundation, part of Church of the Servant in #OKC

#Methodist

I'm still finding my feet as a returnee blogger, but the habit of posting something by Charles Wesley on a Sunday is properly back as a fixture I think. Today, one of his lesser-known efforts. I think it is rather good https://richardhall.online/hymn-of-the-day-9/
#hymn #Wesley #Methodist

Stanly churches vote to disaffiliate with United #Methodist Church

https://flip.it/TtrNNA

#Waco-area #Methodist #churches seeing #denomination's split
https://wacotrib.com/news/local/waco-area-methodist-churches-seeing-denominations-split/article_52366a98-9e73-11ed-9419-c320508cf947.html

Continuing with this show and tell from my heresy collection, I also think prevenient grace is the only grace we need.

That one's for the #Methodist #TheologyNerd contingent.

Today in #Connecticut History, January 27: His Idea of Closing Churches Didn’t Have a Prayer

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/01/27/january-27-never-on-a-sunday/

#20thcentury #aaup #academicfreedom #americanassociationofuniversityprofessors #americaneconomicassociation #belief #bluelaws #connecticuthistory #education #emergenceofmodernamerica #freespeech #hartfordcourant #highereducation #january #methodist #middletown

#JRRT cites #Blackwood as source and influence. Much of this short, early Blackwood essay (juvenalia) from ‘#Methodist Magazine’ would seem present in ‘The Hobbit’, Jura Mountains recast as the Misty Mountains and #Neuchatel as Rivendell. Expect you can count on 1-finger the authors published in both ‘Methodist Magazine’ and ‘#Occult Review’.

#English #Literature

https://kingrpaul.github.io/algernon-blackwood_short-fiction//src//epub//text//in-the-jura-neuchatel.xhtml

John Wesley's Journal dated 27 June, 1769: "By Christian Perfection, I mean, 1. Loving God with all our heart. Do you object to this? I mean, 2. A heart and life all devoted to God. Do you desire less? I mean, 3. Regaining the whole image of God. What objection to this? I mean, 4. Having all the mind that was in Christ. Is this going too far? I mean, 5. Walking uniformly as Christ walked."

#UMC #BeUMC #Chrsitian #Methodist #pastorsofmastodon

Post-disaster #Introduction:

I am best known for #Scala, #Typelevel, and #http4s. I geek out over #Emacs, #Nix, and the #Indieweb. I'm probably a #Bayesian.

I live in #Indianapolis, #Indiana with a #Dachshund, #Coonhound, #TuxedoCat, and a freshwater #Aquarium or five. I offset my #Jogging with #BBQ. I coach youth #Soccer and attend North United #Methodist Church.

This is a #SelfHosted sequel after a Terraform disaster. Boosts appreciated to relocate my peeps.

#Pronouns are he/him.

Living in a strongly #Methodist area in #Lincolnshire, it is satisfying to see that at #Christmas #TeeTotalism has been practised ...

I've just bought #DesignJustice "Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" by @schock https://designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/

I think there are valuable connections in various threads of my life:
- my work as a #Methodist Minister in #Wythenshawe
- my planning for retirement passion of @SustainableSailing
- my programming side interest with #PrayerOfHannah https://codeberg.org/Dave42W/PrayerOfHannah

Design is everywhere and far too often disconnected from justice by the privileged

An early peak at a thing I wrote for the #Methodist church's 'There is Room For All of Nature' week this Advent. (I think they'll be sharing it more widely in the next couple of days.

It takes a look at how my church uses our digital channels to share our #EcoChurch journey with church members, our local community and beyond.

#ThereIsRoom #DigitalEngagement

https://shellydennisonwriter.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/putnoe-heights-church-eco-church-and-digital-engagement/