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May 16, 2012

  • Word from Winkler: Cantankerous conference
  • Peace with Justice grants
  • Women's advocacy opening
  • National Addictions Network
  • Peace with Justice resources
  • ‘Communities of love’ urged
  • Maternal health resolution
  • Hope against hope
  • Shall we do nothing?
  • Safer side by side
  • Poverty in the U.S.
  • A mother’s love
  • ‘Good emergency’ appeal
  • Labor in the Pulpit
  • Second annual food day
  • On true 'adaptive change


May 8, 2012
  • On the 2012 General Conference
  • Restructure voided
  • Sexuality language stays
  • Divestment rejected
  • Social Principles Preamble changed
  • ‘Impenetrable horror’
  • A serious knowledge gap
  • U.S. urged to join Mine Ban Treaty
  • Concern over Sudan tensions
  • The Shooting of Trayvon Martin
  • Torture Awareness Month June
  • Faces of HIV/AIDS
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • World Week for Peace resources


May 1, 2012
  • Violence Against Women Act passes Senate
  • Dangerous legislation
  • Connecticut abolishes death penalty
  • ‘Dignity not detention’
  • Faith leaders call for immigration reform
  • Starting towards healing
  • Tipping point on AIDS
  • Imagine No Malaria
  • Split views on Palestinian support
  • Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
  • Mother’s Day worship guide
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • On inclusivity


April 24, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: My hope for General Conference
  • United Methodists meet in Tampa
  • An Act of Repentance
  • Will restructuring save money?
  • Human Relations Day grants
  • Valuing work and workers
  • Faith-based health-care justice
  • Biblical justice
  • The Jerusalem Prayer
  • Week of Peace liturgy, prayer
  • Nigerian interns at GBCS
  • How I destroyed the UMC
  • Multiethnic- ministry urban context
  • Preaching God’s Transforming Justice
  • On Christian Conferencing


April 17, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Reflections on General Conference
  • Violence against women bill battle
  • Say no to private prisons
  • International debt court sought
  • Stop racial profiling
  • Response to Rep. Ryan
  • Sometimes I weep
  • Faith and family planning
  • Mother’s Day worship guide
  • Peace with Justice Sunday
  • Seminaries plan peace program
  • HIV/AIDS conference April 23
  • Women bishops to share about pilgrimage to Holy Land
  • You are invited
  • On the principle of inclusiveness


April 9, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Shoot-first laws
  • Ethnic Local Church grants
  • No war with Iran
  • Oppose federal prison expansion
  • Foreboding statistics of death
  • Vietnam religious freedom
  • Agreeing to disagree
  • 'Christ at the Checkpoint'
  • Lend your leg
  • Legacy of Agent Orange
  • Spark12 applications
  • Campolo to address social justice
  • Lighten the Burden AIDS event
  • Native American Ministries Sunday
  • On civil discourse


March 28, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: A prayer for spring
  • Prayerful witness for health care
  • Faithful federal budget unveiled
  • A senseless killing
  • Africa conferences field organizer
  • Alcohol Free Lent
  • An unlikely convert
  • Avoiding the soft middle
  • Native American Ministries Sunday
  • Disappointing proposal
  • Campolo to address social justice
  • People of Faith Award
  • ‘New world in the making’
  • Africa students reject plan
  • Pilgrimage to Holy Land
  • On the death penalty


March 20, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Answers to objections
  • John 10:10 relaunches
  • Faithful federal budget
  • Birth control and women’s health
  • Alcohol's social cost
  • Health care in court
  • Scripture clear on immigration
  • Fluke and Limbaugh
  • Love in action
  • Nuclear sanity dawning
  • Social Principles in 1965 march
  • Make Agent Orange history
  • United Methodists to gather at EAD
  • Maternal mortality
  • ‘We demanded education’
  • On emerging culture of fear


March 12, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: An immoral repeal
  • Grassroots organizing expands
  • Access to health care
  • Alcohol Free Lent
  • Reject privatizing prisons
  • Middle East peace vital
  • Agent Orange and woman at the well
  • Words lifted up
  • National Justice for Our Neighbors
  • Students say keep fighting malaria
  • Doing Good
  • Rep. Donald Payne dies
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Change the World, May 19-20
  • On sleeping well at night


February 29, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: War with Iran?
  • 2012 legislative priorities
  • Witness to a ‘different’ power
  • Love like that!
  • Re-consecration prayer
  • Medicaid amicus brief
  • College-age alcohol abuse
  • Prophetic responses in Virginia
  • International family-planning funding
  • Virtual pilgrimage
  • Call for prophetic voices
  • Connecting churches to neighbors
  • A good day
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • On importance of Simpson Chapel


February 22, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: It's not about religious freedom
  • Religion in political campaigns
  • The New Jim Crow
  • A prophetic response to 9/11
  • Pilgrimage to Holy Land
  • World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
  • Protect homecare workers’ rights
  • Wesley and black colleges
  • Bitter immigration rhetoric discouraged
  • 7 Weeks of Water
  • Invitation to African seminarians
  • Diversity dialogue, March 24
  • Faith-based eco-justice event
  • Ethnic internships
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • On jihad


February 13, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Let's make a difference
  • Common-ground solution
  • Congressmen discuss faith
  • When to be prophetic
  • Black and red all over
  • Afghanistan withdrawal accelerated
  • Awaiting hope in Myanmar
  • Love, not pity
  • Caring for God’s Creation
  • NCC considers future
  • Historic low teen alcohol use
  • Alcohol-free Lent
  • Idaho legislative event
  • Ethnic internships
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • On recognizing a prophetic moment


February 3, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: 'Continuous threatening tension'
  • Methodist pastor recalls Dr. King
  • Simpson chapel rededication
  • Contraceptive coverage expands
  • Hijacked: A book review
  • Deteriorating rights in Honduras
  • Alcohol-free Lent
  • Violence threatens Nigeria
  • Okinawans seek base closure
  • Ethnic young-adult internships
  • ‘War & New Life’
  • Juvenile Justice Week
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • On how to build a more equitable world


January 25, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: 1984
  • Alcohol Free Lent
  • Sex and the church: Pornography
  • Mass incarceration mobilization
  • Hear from former death-row inmate
  • Social-justice startups
  • Juvenile Justice Week
  • Lighten the Burden IV
  • End violence against Christians
  • Haiti reconstruction
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Alternate restructure proposed
  • Claremont trustees expand
  • Summer internship deadline
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • On cruelty to animals


January 17, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Living heroes
  • Immigration policy change
  • Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Heeding God’s call
  • Modern slavery proclamation
  • Family planning funding
  • Caretakers of God’s Creation
  • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
  • God loves more than whales
  • Thwarting Middle East peace
  • Cuba changes warrant U.S. responses
  • UM Day at General Assembly
  • Urban ministry summit
  • Lighten the Burden IV
  • On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


January 9, 2012
  • Word from Winkler: Same old, same old
  • Pension board divests from private prisons
  • Private-prisons divestment praised
  • Religious advocacy profiled
  • What is advocacy?
  • Firebombings condemned
  • Something amiss
  • Christians stifle indigenous religions
  • Green Power Leadership Club
  • ‘Champion Changemakers’
  • Ecumenical Advocacy Days
  • Caring for Creation
  • Service for worker justice
  • Making "The dream" reality …
  • On private-prisons divestment

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