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Spotlight on theology — A new and significant challenge to Methodists
16 March 2018
In a time when The Methodist Church is setting itself newpriorities and establishing fresh ways of being church, a new bookwill challenge Methodists yet further by exploring Methodisttheology since 1932, and asking how it can be used in the...
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Methodist Church and TUC lobby for licensed Gangmasters
16 March 2018
The TUC and the Methodist Church yesterday welcomed the supportof the government for legislation to license Gangmasters, in orderto stop the exploitative supply of migrant labour to Britishagriculture.
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Methodists to learn from Latin American Spirituality
16 March 2018
The Methodist Church's commitment to a world church will bereinforced next week in a Conference celebrating Latin Americanspirituality.
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Saving the rural church - 1000s of countryside congregations to gain from new report
16 March 2018
Villages around the country may have lost Post Offices and localshops as Britain's rural identity changes, but the Methodist Churchis determined to reinforce Christian presence in ruralcommunities.
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Government in danger of failing vulnerable people on gambling, say churches
16 March 2018
The Salvation Army and The Methodist Church said today thatdespite some safeguards, the Government's gambling proposals arestill likely to cause a rise in problem gambling. The two churches,which have consistently argued for better protectio...
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Methodist Church welcomes UN resolution on Iraq
16 March 2018
The Methodist Church welcomes the UN Security Council Resolutionthat legitimises the transfer of power from the CoalitionProvisional Authority to an interim Iraqi government on 30June.
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Over 5000 people log on for the first ever Methodist online sermon
16 March 2018
In the first century, God-seekers had to travel across the knownworld to gather in Jerusalem and celebrate the festival ofPentecost. Last Sunday they merely had to log-on.
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Statement on recent election results
16 March 2018
Rachel Lampard, Secretary for Political Affairs, The MethodistChurch: "As a Church and as individuals, Methodists have beeninvolved in highlighting the dangers of political extremism in manyparts of the country, often as part of ecumenical g...
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Statement on the EU Constitution
16 March 2018
Colin Ride, Europe Secretary: The Methodist Church in Britainwelcomes the adoption of the EU Constitution by theInter-Governmental Conference. There is now an opportunity for aninformed, rational, knowledgeable yet passionate debate about th...
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New Methodist President speaks of 'The Listening God'
16 March 2018
'There are none so deaf, as those that don't want tohear'
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Methodist Church paving the ‘way forward’ in Inter Faith relations
16 March 2018
Faith Meeting Faith, a new publication aiming tocounter fears about relating to other religions, and pave the wayforward in Inter Faith relations, will be launched at the MethodistConference next week.
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New district will be home to 23,000 members and 252 churches
16 March 2018
The Methodist Church, at its annual Conference in Loughborough,has approved a report laying out some of the issues about churches,the state and establishment. The Church hopes that it will spark adebate among its own members and in other den...
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