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August 30, 2010

  • Word from Winkler: Social concerns streams
  • Prejudice against Muslims
  • Mosque conflicts widespread
  • Prayer for Pakistan
  • Labor Day
  • Virginia economic justice workshops
  • Combating addiction worship template
  • Abrams at global health event
  • SCJ Religion & Race gathering
  • International Day of Prayer for Peace
  • Beck rally, ‘Freedom Rides for Unborn’ blasted
  • WCC delegation in Palestine/Israel
  • Lake Junaluska Peace Conference
  • On physical vs. spiritual recovery


August 23, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Iraq withdrawal
  • End prison rape
  • ‘Unique’ work opportunity
  • Global AIDS Fund provides help
  • Staring in the wrong direction
  • Abolishing Poverty Conference
  • Understanding Islam
  • Preach on immigration
  • World Communion Sunday, Oct. 3
  • Smith to keynote investing summit
  • Visions of Racial Justice
  • Edelman, Carder at Peace Conference
  • Justice for All: The Documentary
  • On the immigration debate


August 13, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Lobbyists for the Lord in an Abramoff Age
  • AIDS work making difference
  • Young adults learn ropes
  • Senate to consider START
  • Grace by text message
  • Asian-Americans assess ministries
  • Christianity and war
  • United Methodist killed in Afghanistan
  • ‘A Magnanimous Heart’
  • Checking ‘Numbers’
  • U.N. creates new women's agency
  • Combating addiction
  • Lake Junaluska Peace Conference
  • On war and peace


August 6, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: A prayer for summer
  • Combating addiction
  • Justice advocacy makes a difference
  • Sex and the church: ARTful childbirth
  • Connecting the dots
  • Decriminalize injecting drug users
  • Community of Yes
  • 6 months after Haiti earthquake
  • Jasmine’s story
  • Young people to lead peace celebration
  • Pennsylvania anti-poverty summit
  • Conference to embrace diversity
  • On domestic violence


July 30, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Who is the victim?
  • Fair Sentencing Act passes
  • The World Community
  • Conference goal is AIDS-free world
  • Love does no harm
  • Sexual ethics summit is Jan. 26-29
  • Toxic chemicals threaten life
  • Nuclear weapons testing
  • 'Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act'
  • Churches Week of Action on Food
  • Agencies receive poor grades on mission
  • Deborah Walker dies
  • On HIV & AIDS


July 23, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Freedom
  • The Political Community
  • 100 years of Methodism in Congo
  • Beware fracking’s allure
  • Study immigration reform
  • Peace Conference update
  • Social justice ministries intern
  • Heart of HIV commitments
  • No more ‘light’ tobacco
  • Bishop Dew dies
  • Christian radio ad follows Beck
  • Focus on Haiti
  • On the greater good


July 16, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Succintly said
  • Comprehensive response urged to Gulf crisis
  • What is comprehensive immigration reform?
  • Social Principles and the Economic Community
  • Major victories in tobacco control
  • Recession affects HIV drug waiting list
  • What does it mean to be a Christian?
  • Muslims honor United Methodists
  • Support family planning, maternal health
  • Bullying
  • 2011 World Methodist Peace Award
  • Congregational vitality assessed
  • On the social gospel and evangelism


July 9, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Anecdotal evidence
  • Sex and the church — Pornography and sexual addiction
  • The Social Community
  • Institutional discrimination
  • Critical week for women’s rights
  • Eliminate global child labor
  • Fistula Stories
  • Boycott illegal Israeli settlements goods
  • Ethnic Local Church Grants
  • Edelman, Carder at Peace Conference
  • Holy Land pilgrimage
  • On giving


June 30, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Catching your breath
  • Ethnic minority internships
  • A different kind of intern
  • Social Principles on the Nurturing Community
  • Immigration reform is faith issue
  • Human trafficking
  • Ethnic Local Church Grants
  • Tacoma Community House honored
  • Anti-torture resources
  • Missouri ‘Social Justice Award’
  • MFSA leader takes new position
  • ‘Freedom and Christian Faith’
  • On working with immigrants


June 22, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Mobilized Methodists
  • Social Principles and the Natural World
  • Faith community condemns torture
  • Methodists and controversy
  • Northern Illinois approves divestment
  • Tennessee UMs stand with Owens
  • Minnetonka ‘Peace & Justice Resource Center’
  • World Food Prize honors Beckmann, Luck
  • The DeMarco Factor
  • Dialogue with Kronish June 25
  • World in Need of Healing
  • Death penalty and faith
  • On Methodism


June 13, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Deny until they die
  • Interfaith Health Care Justice Sabbath
  • How can you identify a United Methodist?
  • Precipitating event on immigration reform
  • Should we go to war?
  • HIV & AIDS activism demands passion
  • Socially responsible investing summit
  • Vietnam War's tragic legacy
  • 1953 seminar opens young eyes
  • Addiction: How will the church respond?
  • You don’t want ministers
  • Obstetric fistula climbs up national agenda
  • On domestic violence


June 7, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: A prayer for spring
  • Israeli attack condemned
  • Immigration not divisive
  • Sex and the church: Unwed clergy
  • Have quilt, will travel
  • 'Pursuing Peace Together'
  • Bread for the World Lobby Day
  • Torture Awareness Month
  • Urge Senate to support family-planning
  • ‘Oil Spill in the Gulf’
  • Millennials support immigration
  • Climate change real
  • Coalition urges inclusive indicators
  • On faith values and immigration


May 26, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: Truth about poverty
  • National prayer for Arizona
  • Web-based resource on gulf oil spill
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • A challenge to moral conscience
  • Why I oppose capital punishment
  • Legislators support landmines ban
  • Open-pit coal mining in Columbia
  • United Methodists create legacy of peace
  • 'It’s Time for Palestine'
  • 2nd grader speaks up for families
  • Call to action immigration template
  • $100,000 anti-racism grant
  • On socialist transformation of America


May 19, 2010
  • Word from Winkler: U.S.-Iran game of chicken
  • 'Emergency delegation' visits U.S. capital
  • Climate legislation criticized
  • Need for immigration reform
  • Kagan nomination sign of change
  • Speak up about bullying
  • Mai Gray, champion of justice, dies
  • World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
  • Conference to propose ‘Caring Society’
  • Peace Among the Peoples
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • Faith conference focuses on nuclear weapons
  • On the 'connection'


May 12, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — A vote against inclusivity
  • Support Philippines human rights
  • Help protect jailed youths
  • Bringing the message home
  • Bishops urge immigration action
  • Environmental cancer threats underestimated
  • A haunting refrain
  • ‘Social Justice & Christian Faith’
  • Eradicating domestic poverty
  • Social Principles belong in Discipline
  • Child ends life because of bullying
  • Nuclear weapons faith conference
  • On Wesley and politics


May 4, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Can reason triumph?
  • Sex and the church — Faith matters
  • Send Mother’s Day e-card
  • When politics became a prayer
  • Women march for immigrant rights
  • Urge senators to support new START
  • Loss of a moral compass
  • Afghanistan withdrawal time line
  • We are called to live biblical model of hospitality
  • ‘Public Service as Christian Vocation’
  • UMW focuses on immigration
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • On inclusion in the church


April 28, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Pray for the Philippines
  • It is anti-abortion
  • Anti-immigrant law
  • Close Okinawa base
  • Preview of things to come?
  • Black Out for Miners
  • Life is a problem
  • Native American ministry
  • Crime victim advocates recognized
  • ‘Let There Be Life’
  • World Week for Peace in Palestine, Israel
  • Peace for the World’s Children
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • On Arizona’a anti-immigrant bill


April 20, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — I for 'Incomplete'
  • Congo Church & Society Academy
  • Peace with Justice grants
  • Close gun show loophole
  • Hospital visitation directive
  • A prairie optimist
  • Dorothy Height dies
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • Effort to confront domestic violence
  • Go ‘deep green’
  • Support World Malaria Day
  • Child Abuse Prevention
  • World Week for Peace in Palestine, Israel
  • On homosexual discrimination


April 13, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Expendable people
  • A way to help save the UMC?
  • Embracing our yellow leaves
  • The way to respond to lack of civility
  • Festival of God's Creation resources
  • Making the poor a priority
  • PACT Act signed into law
  • Call to Action to gather data
  • Gender-specific language
  • Civil rights tour June 3-7
  • Hunger advocate recognized
  • Native American Ministries Sunday
  • Sleep out to end malaria
  • On love and justice


April 7, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — When the going gets tough
  • Sex and the church — Reproductive rights
  • U.S. and landmine ban
  • How to treat our earth
  • Canada to shun family planning
  • Immigration, criminal justice internship
  • Support 2 peace events
  • Live your life well!
  • Prevent underage drinking
  • Recognize older adults in May
  • Jubilee USA new executive director
  • Global Campaign for Education
  • Native American Ministries Sunday
  • On care of God's creation


March 30, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Whirlwind
  • Human Relations Day grants
  • Ethnic Local Church grants
  • Who speaks for United Methodists?
  • Latina pastor fears for her flock
  • New UM Seminar webpage
  • UMs urged to model civility
  • Sleep out to end malaria
  • Separation wall breached
  • Step to end wage theft
  • Racism linked to decline
  • Grants to assist immigrants
  • ‘Green Church’ resources
  • Missionaries in halls of power
  • On God's expectations


March 23, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Christian faith's birthplace at risk
  • Health-care bill passes
  • Immigration reform mobilization
  • Tea Party protester spits on Congressman
  • Breaking up to make up
  • Give me your tired, your poor
  • Heading out the church door?
  • Are we awake or asleep?
  • Hopeandaction website expanded
  • Ban cluster munitions treaty
  • Native American Ministries Sunday
  • On transforming the world


March 15, 2010
  • Young clergy attend GBCS forum
  • Illinois Great Rivers Justice Summits
  • North Texas filling buses
  • ‘Paving the way’
  • Obama foreign aid
  • Bloodiest Afghanistan year
  • Abortion funding restrictions
  • Philippines will not release 'Morong 43'
  • Social and economic justice
  • Farmworker Slavery Museum
  • Be counted
  • N.C. Caring for Creation
  • Incite/Insight cinema series
  • On the arc of the universe


March 5, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Reconciliation
  • Sex and the church — Seeking true love
  • Health-care stretch drive
  • General agencies meeting
  • Health care and the Scriptures
  • ‘Kick Butts’ Day
  • Global Education Campaign
  • Bar Assn. honors United Methodist
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • Health-care summit applauded
  • ‘Cool Congregations’
  • Help stop Virginia execution
  • N.C. Caring for Creation
  • On seeing possibilities


February 26, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Greatest anti-poverty program
  • Take heart on health-care reform
  • Mississippi e-mail Lenten devotionals
  • Siamese twins of ministry
  • Can you top Texas?
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • Help stop Virginia’s 106th execution
  • 'Time to Kill the Death Penalty?'
  • Casino protestors acquitted
  • Show-Me Creation Care
  • Creation Care in Northern Illinois
  • Film recalls 1970 murder over race
  • Faith and torture
  • Women's History Month
  • On courage of convictions


February 19, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Moments of clarity
  • Outrage growing over ‘Morong 43’
  • Military denies health workers’ rights
  • Urgency in Gaza
  • Coalition to end violence launched
  • Civil rights leader calls for reform
  • UMC Human Rights Monitor honored
  • Pray for Côte d’Ivoire
  • Caring for God’s Creation
  • ‘Legend in the building’
  • Ending U.S. war in Afghanistan
  • Study on ending violence against women
  • On a contemporary theology of mission


February 12, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Snowbound reading
  • Prayers for criminal justice reform
  • Philippines military detains health workers
  • Are we to worship or follow Jesus?
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • The failure of charity
  • Socially responsible investing survey
  • Faith leaders push for immigration reform
  • World Week for Peace
  • Video, guide on torture
  • Arkansas ‘Caring for Creation’
  • Change the World, April 24-25
  • On human potential


February 5, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — A bad idea
  • Sex and the church — Ending heterosexism
  • Study guide for bishops' pastoral letter
  • Pass 'Fair Elections Act'
  • Postcards for immigration reform
  • Support ‘Conflict Minerals Trade Act’
  • February is Black History Month
  • Jerusalem is Palestinian, too
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Haiti response should protect females
  • WASH for Lent
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • On the Orangeburg Massacre


January 27, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Withholding food
  • Stop teen dating violence
  • Mefford criminal justice efforts lauded
  • Haitian pregnant women at risk
  • Prisons without walls
  • Operation Healing Hope
  • 'Theology' of 'Avatar'
  • UN chief’s priorities
  • Middle East peace prospects
  • Interfaith dialogue in Indonesia
  • 7-part Lenten study
  • Cost of wars passes $1 trillion
  • ‘Futility of violence’
  • On gunsights bearing 'Jesus' codes


January 20, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Haiti
  • Prophet-driven economy
  • 2010 legislative priorities
  • Haiti death toll passes 200,000
  • United Methodist TV message on Haiti
  • Uganda anti-homosexuality bill decried
  • New head of Global Ministries
  • Help reform U.S. criminal justice
  • Oregon-Idaho immigration workshops
  • Black History Month open house
  • Building social action ministries
  • Young Clergy Leadership Forum
  • Peace with Justice Day Grants
  • On making disciples


January 13, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Potpourri
  • Human Relations Day
  • Interfaith health-care vigils
  • Moral Vision in Health Care Bills
  • ‘Healthy Famlies’ consultant
  • Letter to King
  • Day ‘on,’ not ‘off’'
  • Covert signals
  • Justice Sunday™ interfaith service
  • Close Guantanamo Bay
  • Immigration reform urgent
  • Internship deadline extended
  • Native American ministers’ retreat
  • On local church priorities


January 6, 2010
  • Word from Winkler — Prophet-driven economy
  • Sex and the church — Senior sexuality
  • President's Plan for AIDS Relief
  • Human rights dates
  • Texas network urges immigration reform
  • Truth Commission on Conscience
  • Aspects of Qur’än
  • UM Day at Virginia capitol
  • ‘Going green’
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • 5th Caring for Creation
  • UMM names Hanke CEO
  • On abundant life

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