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☆ United Methodist Church embraces the LGBTQ after decades of division
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Courtesy Neighborhood Church AtlantaA church at war with itselfThe United Methodist Church has been at war with itself for decades over its stance on homosexuality. In 2019, the United Methodist Church’s governing body opened a temporary window for congregations to petition to leave over the issue. Andy Oliver reacts after the United Methodist Church removes a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers. And yet you stay, and you fight because you know, a better church is possible.”A sign outside the Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Andy OliverThe Real Work BeginsThe United Methodist Church, is one of the largest mainline Protestant Christian denominations in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.

Persons: Andi Woodworth, Woodworth, Anjie, ”, “, that’s, ” Woodworth, Anjie Woodworth, Rev, Kristin Stoneking, “ We’ve, “ There’s, ” Anjie, she’s, …, Andy Oliver, Chris Carlson, Robert “ BJ ” Jackson, Oliver, Jackson, Tim, Tim’s, he’s, ” Oliver, Jackson’s, ‘, BJ, – John Wesley –, Billy Hester, Hester, disaffiliate, ” CNN’s Justin Gamble Organizations: CNN, Neighborhood Church, United Methodist Church, Methodist, Church, United Methodist, Christian, “, Conference, Network, Allendale United Methodist Church, Pew Research Center, Asbury Memorial Church Locations: Atlanta , Georgia, Atlanta, Church Atlanta, Allendale, St . Petersburg , Florida, United States, Savannah , Georgia, Savannah

☆ New Jersey Demands That ‘God’s Square Mile’ Open on Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Rachel Chiu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyNeptune Township, N.J.A religious nonprofit has owned Ocean Grove, a stretch of beach and adjacent property, for more than 150 years. In the 1980s the group relaxed that policy, opening Ocean Grove’s beaches at noon on Sundays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It’s the only patch of the roughly 130-mile Jersey Shore that’s off limits to bathers on summer Sunday mornings. Now state officials are looking to strip the community of its religious tradition and force the beaches open.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Neptune, it’s Organizations: Reuters, Day, Labor, Jersey Shore Locations: N.J, Jersey

☆ More women are aiming to become church leaders. Together, they could change American Christianity
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

How the presence of women church leaders has grownStudents pray at the opening of a women's ministry class at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 2021. However, numbers across different denominations reveal the same pattern: More women in training, more women being ordained. How women can change the church that isPeople at a pro-women ordination demonstration in New York City, circa 1970. FPG/Getty ImagesFuller Theological Seminary, where Abernethy works, is one of the largest seminaries in the US and one with a noted history of championing female faith leaders. So women and women of color have never really served just one function or one role.

Persons: —, They’ve, ”, Alexis Abernethy, “, LM Otero, Let’s, Eileen Campbell, Reed, FPG, Abernethy, that’s, “ I’ve, Linda Barnes Popham, Christiana Botic, Emily Badgett, Emily, ” Badgett, Badgett, it’s, Suzie Sang, “ It’s, Sang Organizations: CNN — Christian, Roman Catholic, Southern Baptist, Fuller Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, ELCA, United Church of Christ, CNN, “, Fern Creek Baptist Church, New York Times, Candler School, Theology, Emory University, Women, Fuller, Southern Baptist Convention, The Methodist Locations: Southern, Pasadena , California, Fort Worth , Texas, New York City, it’s, Fern Creek, Atlanta, Christianity

☆ GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao warns of 'witchcraft' happening in California: 'We can't let that happen in Virginia'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hung Cao, a former GOP House nominee, is now running for Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine's seat. He warned in a recent interview that "witchcraft" is happening in California. "There's a place in Monterey, California called 'Lover's Point,'" Cao said. According to the Monterey County Historical Society, "Lover's Point" was indeed once known as "Lovers of Jesus Point," owing to its settlement by the Methodist Episcopalian Church in the 1870s. Earlier in the interview, Cao — a Vietnamese refugee — also remarked that he was African-American by virtue of having spent time in Niger as a child.

Persons: Hung Cao, Democratic Sen, Tim Kaine's, Jennifer Wexton, Cao, Tim Kaine, who's, Sean Feucht —, it's, Cao —, —, Cao interjected, Scott Parkinson, Ron DeSantis Organizations: GOP House, Democratic, Service, Republican, US, Disney, Wing, Historical Society, Methodist Episcopalian Church, Government Affairs, Club for Growth Locations: California, Cao, Africa, Wall, Silicon, Virginia, United States, Monterey , California, Monterey, African, Niger, Florida

☆ A University Fired 2 Employees for Including Their Pronouns in Emails
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Liam Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot decided to include their pronouns at the end of their work emails, they thought they were doing a good thing: following what they viewed as an emerging professional standard, and also sending a message of inclusivity at the Christian university where they worked. But their bosses at Houghton University, in upstate New York, saw the matter very differently. When they refused to do so, both employees were fired, just weeks before the end of the semester. Houghton’s firing of the two staff members has dismayed some of its alumni, nearly 600 of whom signed a petition in protest. And it comes as gender and sexuality have become major fault lines in an increasingly divided nation, and after other faith-based organizations, including Yeshiva University in Manhattan, have argued that First Amendment protections of religious freedom allow them to treat gay and transgender people differently than others.

☆ TikTok's 'lucky girls' say they manifest success by simply believing things always work out for them — because, why not?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The "lucky girl" technique has been criticized as pseudoscience, wishful thinking, and little more than pop psychology. "If you want to be that lucky girl, you've got to step into her and embody her." She sees being a lucky girl as a "way to have control and hope," she said. "When you believe you're lucky, you follow the cues that come to you, and trust that the universe will do its part." Natasha BadgerFor Badger, "lucky-girl syndrome" is akin to a spiritual practice.

☆ South Africa mine dam collapse highlights patchy regulation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Nelson Banya | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A general view of the aftermath of a mine dam wall collapse in Jagersfontein, South Africa, September 12, 2022. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe disaster has raised questions about who should be responsible for tailings dams oversight in South Africa and across the world. The Jagersfontein dam burst follows the brumadinho tailings dam collapse in Brazil nearly four years ago, which killed hundreds when a Vale SA (VALE3.SA)-owned dam collapsed. South Africa's government, mining industry and experts are still in the process of updating the country's tailings code to align with the global standard, the Minerals Council of South Africa said. The experts say, for example, that the global standards require a clearer responsibility and accountability structure than the current mine residue code in South Africa.

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