Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal / Progressive / Communist Threat [Part 6] 15 Apr 2021 During World War Two General Patton was asked how he was able to defeat German General Rommel...then known as the 'Desert Fox'? Patton's response, "I read his book". By studying…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal / Progressive / Communist Threat [Part 5] 8 Apr 2021 Marx did not let his irresponsibility toward his family get in his way of devising ways to 'change and improve' the world. In 1862 a great international exhibition was held…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal / Progressive / Communist Threat [Part 4] 1 Apr 2021 Today we will expose some more about the man that so many today idol without knowing his principles for life. It was a basic principle that he was so important…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal/Progressive/Communist Threat [Part 3] 25 Mar 2021 In many ways Engels was the very opposite of Marx. He enjoyed athletics, liked people, and was by nature an optimist. He was born in Barmen, Germany, in…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal/Progressive/Communist Threat [Part 2] 18 Mar 2021 One cannot trace the evil of Communism without taking a look into the lives of two key individuals. Keeping in mind that we are all creations of God, something happens…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Church and the Liberal / Progressive / Communist Threat [Part 1] 11 Mar 202111 Mar 2021 Keep in mind this was said 73 years ago ... a quote from 1944: Norman Matton Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 53] 4 Mar 2021 I had fully intended to start a new sub-series this week on the threat of liberalism/communism/progressiveism to the church but I came across some additional information on some churches supporting…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 52] 25 Feb 2021 Last week we left off with some in-church leadership trying to pick and choose the best ways to clear their consciences in the 'murder of the unborn'. They might start…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 51] 18 Feb 2021 America's founders did not have a utopian view of human nature, but they did have a high view of it. A brief consideration of the founders' understanding of the right…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 50] 11 Feb 2021 The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR) convened a press conference at the Methodist Building in Washington, DC, in 1985 to condemn abortion clinic bombings, with Board of Church and…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 49] 4 Feb 2021 The Women's Division lawsuit for government-funded abortion was defeated when the US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that such restrictions are unconstitutional. The court also ruled that the plaintiffs lacked…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church {Part 48] 28 Jan 2021 By a wide margin the 1976 General Conference, meeting in Portland, Oregon, reaffirmed support for the "legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures." (In today's world that can mean…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 47] 21 Jan 2021 Wesley Theological Seminary ethicist J. Philip Wogaman editorialized in 1972 for liberalized abortion laws. "The absolutizing of the rights of the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy can contribute…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 46] 14 Jan 2021 This week you will be exposed to explanations that must be oh so pleasing to Satan but the heartbreak is that they come from church leadership. Shall we get started?…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 45] 7 Jan 2021 As we ended last week, President Roosevelt was addressing the 1908 General Conference in regards to birth control. To further his commentary..."No human being has a greater title to respect…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 44] 31 Dec 2020 Next we will get into a subject that has had as major impact on our society almost as had co-habitation. It is a subject that traces back to biblical times…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 43] 24 Dec 2020 This week we will continue to take a look at what UMC church policy will permit leadership and membership to do within the precepts of church policy. I reiterate that…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 42] 17 Dec 2020 We will continue with a search for a UMC policy that discredits the church's involvement in politics. Thus far, it has not been found. Does the General Board…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 41] 10 Dec 2020 For the next couple of weeks we will go a bit off course in discussing the church's involvement with politics. I had been told by a local minister that politics…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 40] 3 Dec 2020 Final peace terms between the US and North Vietnam were concluded in early 1973 after the US 1972 "Christmas" bombing that so outraged many church officials. But the war in…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 39] 26 Nov 2020 The full Council of Bishops met for three days at the United Methodist Church Center for the United Nations in 1971 to discuss how the church could help make the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 38] 20 Nov 2020 In 1969, the World Division of the Board of Global Ministries became the first church agency to directly condemn the war, explaining that if government policies serve death over life,…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 37] 12 Nov 202013 Nov 2020 In a less controversial setting, Vice President Hubert Humphrey spoke at a testimonial dinner for Indiana Bishop Richard Raines in 1967 at DePauw University. "Almost persuadest thou me…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 36] 5 Nov 202011 Mar 2021 The 1966 National Conference of the Methodist Student Movement, meeting in Washington, DC, voted "no confidence" in South Vietnam's government, while hearing radical speakers praise the "new revolutionary." Meanwhile Board…
