#methodists

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Methodist Story-Spotlight, Volume 12 Number 9, UMC, October 1968 (cover photo from film 'These Four Cozy Walls' )

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Churches of Somerset: Zion Chapel (Bible Christian), Brompton Regis, was built in 1854, likely as one of the earliest Methodist chapels on Exmoor due to some very severe local resistance until the late Victorian period.

Gallery: Churches of Somerset

A picture gallery showcasing several churches in West Somerset, in this series which is designed to be part of an all-inclusive set of photo

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"INTEREST IS REVIVED IN OAKVILLE NEGRO CHURCH," Toronto Star. April 10, 1934. Page 4. --- With only two members of its small congregation employed, the African Methodist Episcopal church at Oakville is having a hard struggle for existence, but the pastor. Rev. C. P. Jones who took charge last fall. sees signs of a spiritual revival in his flock. The photographs above show: (1) Mrs. Lillie A. P. Jones, wife of the pastor, and superintendent of the Sunday school; (2) the A.M.E. church in the west end of Oakville: (3) Rev. C. P. Jones (4) and (5) are Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Adams. 83 and 87 years old. respectively, who are the oldest members of the church Mrs. Adams father. Rev. W. J. Butler, was one of the early pastors of the church, and Mr. Adams father was one of the founders.

[azspot]

One fourth of United Methodist churches in US have left in schism over LGBTQ ban. What happens now?

United Methodist churches had a five-year window to leave the denomination over disputes involving its bans on same-sex marriage and ordaining LGBTQ persons.

The vast major are conservative-leaning churches responding to what they see as the United Methodists’ failure to enforce bans on same-sex marriage and the ordaining of openly LGBTQ persons.

[gwydionmisha]

Why is the United Methodist Church meeting over LGBTQ+ rights?

Delegates at the church's General Conference are likely to vote to rescind anti-LGBTQ+ policies, but it's not a done deal.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

methodists

Garrison Keillor on the hushed-up secrets of the Methodists

We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed, and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese.

But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in New York City, a relatively Methodist-less place, to sing along on the chorus of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," they will look daggers at you as if you had asked them to strip to their underwear. But if you do this among Methodists, they'd smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! And down the road!

Many Methodists are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony, a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person's rib cage.

It's natural for Methodists to sing in harmony. They are too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally fulfilling moment. By joining in harmony, they somehow promise that they will not forsake each other.

I do believe this: People, these Methodists, who love to sing in four-part harmony are the sort of people you can call up when you're in deep distress.

*If you're dying, they will comfort you.

*If you are lonely, they'll talk to you.

*And if you are hungry, they'll give you tuna salad.

*Methodists believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud.

*Methodists like to sing, except when confronted with a new hymn or a hymn with more than four stanzas.

*Methodists believe their pastors will visit them in the hospital, even if they don't notify them that they are there.

*Methodists usually follow the official liturgy and will feel it is their way of suffering for their sins.

*Methodists believe in miracles and even expect miracles, especially during their stewardship visitation programs or when passing the plate.

Methodists think that the Bible forbids them from crossing the aisle while passing the peace.

*Methodists drink coffee as if it were the Third Sacrament.

*Methodists feel guilty for not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall.

*Methodists are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at the church.

*Methodists still serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color of the season and think that peas in a tuna casserole adds too much color.

*Methodists believe that it is OK to poke fun at themselves and never take themselves too seriously.

And finally, You know you are a Methodist when:

It's 100 degrees, with 90% humidity, and you still have coffee after the service.

You hear something funny during the sermon and smile as loudly as you can.

Donuts are a line item in the church budget, just like coffee.

When you watch a Star Wars movie and they say, "May the Force be with you," you respond, "and also with you."

And lastly, it takes ten minutes to say good-bye!

[wtffundiefamilies]

Honestly, he’s not so much a fundie as a garden-variety Trump-loving Tea Party dick who enjoys gambling, drinking and also denying minority groups civil rights while fighting to death so people’s “civil rights” of not having to wear a mask in public are safe.  (Also, allegedly, spousal abuse.)

But he really, really loudly hates trans people, so, uh.  Sometimes you just gotta make a note of these things, you know?  And sometimes the commentary is just too funny to skip.

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Marblehead Methodist Church Annual Cookie Swap. last night