"OLD MEN": WHITE, BLACK, and ALL EVANGELICAL MEN, REPENT!
"OLD MEN": WHITE, BLACK, and ALL EVANGELICAL MEN, REPENT!

Once the Methodist/United Methodist Church was viewed as "America's Church." We boasted that Methodism was present in every County seat town. Those of us who are not Dallas Cowboys ("America's Team") fans despite their success this year, believed that we as a Church were more "American" than the Cowboys. But today in a distortion of the meaning of "Globality", we sacrifice the inclusivity, although not yet perfected, of the USA, in order to "use" the biases taught by missionaries, to justify discrimination in the UMC.

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Marilyn BennettGil Caldwell, John Wesley, United Methodist Church, racism, lgbtq, lynchings, evangelicals, Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?Comment
THE IMPACT AT THE INTERSECTION
THE IMPACT AT THE INTERSECTION

WE HAVE SO MUCH GOOD NEWS TO SHARE! Thanks to YOU, Truth In Progress has hurdled over some huge milestones, which are propelling us into a host of opportunities, even before we’ve had a chance to do any significant promotions! Clearly, From Selma to Stonewall is relevant, timely, and exciting interest across the country. This is the moment we’ve been working toward.

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AN "OPEN LETTER" to BISHOP MELVIN G. TALBERT
AN "OPEN LETTER" to BISHOP MELVIN G. TALBERT

The unwillingness of United Methodism to affirm and encourage marriage equality, to publicly endorse the God-given love that same-gender couples share, will forever be a blight on the denomination. And, the charges against and trials of UM clergy who perform same-gender marriages like the Salem Witch Trials, will in time be viewed as unbelievable and unexplainable.

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Congratulations, Jim & John, and All Y'all!
Congratulations, Jim & John, and All Y'all!

"We who are black have been historically enslaved and segregated by the biblical misinterpretation of 'The curse of Ham' in the book of Genesis. 

HOW LONG WILL THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CONTINUE TO ‘CURSE’ SAME-GENDER LOVING PERSONS? 

They have become the ‘New N......’ of this moment in history.”

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As of May 1st we have $12,964 to go!
As of May 1st we have $12,964 to go!

Together we can raise the final $18,400!

The film couldn't be more timely, the characters more interesting, or the ramifications more crucial. Please give to help take this important film across the finish line. Share the campaign and movie teaser with your friends. Let's get hundreds of people involved. Each and every gift takes the film one step closer to being finished.

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"From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?"
"From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?"

I do not believe that most men, upon reflection, would want a negative depiction of men (as expressed in the slogan) to justify the rejection of an equal rights ordinance. "Men ofHouston", I do not believe you deserve the fear-mongering that used your gender to defeat an equal rights ordinance!

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Different Struggle Same FightMarilyncivil rights, Equal Rights, Equality, From Selma to Stonewall - Are We There Yet?, Houston, lgbtq, No Men In Women's Bathrooms, Proposition 1, Selma, stonewallComment
Opening our Hearts... Awakening to Other

As many of you reading this probably feel saddened, sickened and outraged when we turn on the news to yet another tragic and senseless slaughter of black lives, we can only hope not to become numbed and completely apathetic. While it is absolutely maddening from Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Samuel Dubois, and the daily litany of abuses, I try to keep reminding myself to "stay awake” and to stay engaged in whatever ways I can.

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June 19, 2015, "JUNTEENTH"; The 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas

Colleagues, I first heard of "Juneteenth" when we lived in Galveston, Texas, where my father, Rev. G. Haven Caldwell, was Pastor of Wesley Tabernacle Methodist Church. We lived in Galveston from 1948-50. I attended all-black Central High School in Galveston.

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A Response to Three of the Baltimore Police Officers Charged in the death of Freddie Gray

It is now time for an understanding that “Black Lives Matter” be embraced, not only in Police Stations, but in the words that black gang members tattoo on their arms, that Supreme Court Justices place on their walls, Congress members include in their legislation, and Presidents have on their desks in the Oval Office.

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Different Struggle Same FightMarilynBaltimore, Blink, Freddie Gray, gangs, Malcolm Gladwell, Marilyn J- Mosby, Martin Luther King, police abuseComment