Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 5] 20 Jun 2019 Not to avoid politics in the church, Clarence True Wilson continued his condemnation of any politician who showed the slightest tendency to support anti-Prohibition. It got so bad that in…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 4] 13 Jun 2019 The northern Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals told its 1920 General Conference, meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, that national prohibition was the "greatest victory ever won by the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 3] 6 Jun 2019 National Prohibition was enacted in 1919 with the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Methodism, having espoused a strong anti-liquor stance since at least the early nineteenth century, was a…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 2] 30 May 2019 The history of Methodism and its political involvement over the last century forms an essential and largely overlooked part of American history. Understanding America may be impossible without understanding the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 1] 23 May 2019 This week I will start a new series. I realize that in some cases I may be 'walking on egg shells'. Sometimes that is necessary to get a point across. …
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