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Methodist representatives report on World Council of Churches
16 March 2018
Anthea Cox, Methodist Co-ordinating Secretary for Public Lifeand Social Justice, recently returned from the World Council ofChurches assembly in Brazil. She, along with over 700 otherrepresentatives from 340 member churches, spent 10 days in...
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Highlights of the February meeting of the Methodist Council
16 March 2018
The Methodist Council met at All Saints Pastoral Centre nearLondon on 16-17 February. With only one more meeting scheduledbefore the Methodist Conference meets in June, the Council had alot of business on a range of topics from Church organi...
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Methodist response to the "Christian Council of Britain”
16 March 2018
A body calling itself the Christian Council of Britain andapparently associated with the BNP recently started joiningprotests against Jerry Springer: The Opera.For more details seewww.ekklesia .co.ukAnthea Cox, Methodist Coordinatin...
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Faith and politics: Methodist response to Tony Blair's Parkinson interview
16 March 2018
Today, Anthea Cox, the Methodist Church's Coordinating Secretaryfor Public Life and Social Justice, said: 'Tony Blair's interviewon Parkinson on Saturday night firmly reintroduced in the publicarena the ongoing debate about the relationship ...
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From the heart of Pakistan to life as a minister in Witney
16 March 2018
The Revd Asif Karam has travelled almost 4000 miles from hishome in Lahore, Pakistan to serve as a Methodist minister inWitney, Oxfordshire. In September last year, Asif joined the WorldChurch Partners in Britain programme, through which min...
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Forget fantasy: imagine being marginalised and forgotten
16 March 2018
Many of us fantasise about being someone else: someone richer,more attractive, or more famous. But a new book is challengingpeople to imagine being someone less glamorous: disadvantaged,marginalised and forgotten.People Like Us is a new ...
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Fund for World Mission legacies reach £779,000
16 March 2018
Legacies to the Methodist Fund for World Mission reached£779,000 in the year to 31 August 2005, nearly double that totalfor the year before. The money left in legacies has offset a fallin donations from churches to take giving to the Fund to...
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The April meeting of the Methodist Council
16 March 2018
The Methodist Council met at All Saints Pastoral Centre, LondonColney, on 6 & 7 April, for its last scheduled meeting for theannual Methodist Conference meets in June.In response to a note from the Stationing Committee, Council andth...
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Local Elections 2006: It's time to get involved
16 March 2018
As Local Authority Elections draw near and candidates begin tocanvas for support, the Methodist Church is encouraging people toget involved and ask their candidates the hard questions.The elections take place in England on Thursday 4 May a...
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Apocalypse now? Easter message from the President of the Methodist Conference
16 March 2018
The Revd Tom Stuckey, President of the Methodist Conference,says in his Easter message that it is ironic that so many peoplewill spend Easter Day at a garden centre, given that the firstEaster took place in a garden, and that Mary mistook th...
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Urban mission gives boost to whole church
16 March 2018
An ecumenical urban mission initiative backed by the Methodistchurch is producing results. The Methodist Church and theEvangelical Coalition for Urban Mission (ECUM) jointly sponsor anUrban Mission post, with an office at the Church Army Col...
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New look Rainbow dazzles after redesign
16 March 2018
MethodistChildren has re-launched Rainbow, the magazine for 4 to13 year-olds. Produced by Junior Mission for All (JMA), it has afantastic new look with stunning images illustrating the lives ofchildren all over the world.As before, Rainb...
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