[Magdalen] UMC TV Ads

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The UMC includes as members both ardent Tea Party Republicans and equally ardent liberal Democrats, with the religious-right folks more ascendant than they were when my Methodist-minister father--a Social Gospel devotee who believed social justice was as important as personal holiness--was active (1930-1970).  Many Methodist clergy today are graduates of an evangelical seminary that claims a Methodist heritage but is unaffiliated with the UMC.  There are Methodists (lay, clerical, & episcopal) who view gay marriage as a social justice issue, but they are AFAIK way outnumbered.  I became an Episcopalian 55 years ago (then aged 23) because (a) I wanted and needed to be in worshipping communities that shared Holy Communion every week rather than once in three months, and (b) I could see the ascendancy of the evangelical know-nothings coming.  

  
---- Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Not bad...for an outfit that rejected gay marriage.
> 
> The Lutheran church I go to partners with the UMC across the street on a
> lot of community service projects. The social gospel, at least, seems to be
> alive and well over there. One of my dear friends in Tennessee, who grew up
> Roman Catholic and was estranged from all church for a long time, is now a
> lay minister in the UMC and very active in mission work (mostly in health
> care--she's a nurse) and was for a time one of the parish nurses in the
> church she attends.
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> > Have any of you seen the United Methodist Church TV Ads/
> >
> > They've bought spots on over the air TV -- saw two of them on the news
> > this morning; caught one of them last week in Harrisburg too.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://www.rethinkchurch.org/
> >
> > And see one of the TV Spots.
> >
> > Neat stuff.
> >
> > I wonder if they managed to put it together in less than the 2 1/2 years
> > it took the folk at 815 for TEC <g> ?. It's clear that unlike TEC, there
> > was money left in the budget to place the ads as well. .
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim
> >
> > "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
> > the enemy isn’t conservatism.
> > The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
> >