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    Arkansas United Methodists weighing option of splitting for Global Methodist Church
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    Be sure to subscribe to the Foreign Policy ProvCast! We’re on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and elsewhere. Here and discuss the war in Ukraine:

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    takes on both Catholic integralists and Protestant magisterialists. And does a fine job. When will secularism wake up to the need for an alliance with religious believers on behalf of traditional liberalism and constitutional democracy?

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    Latest Marksism on Just War, isolationism & Ukraine:

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  5. Mar 18

    How did Christian defenses of our tradition fail so utterly? Most importantly, where do we go from here? reports.

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    When we feed into the disrespectful actions of cancel culture, we forget that we too are accountable for our own sins, writes.

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  7. Mar 18

    From our emeritus board member:

    In its classic form, writes George Weigel, the just-war tradition’s mode of analysis involves two categories of moral criteria for thinking through the relationship of military action to the ends of peace, freedom, and justice.
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    Dictatorships are sustained by public opinion, which is also manipulated, distorted, intimidated, creating constant surreality & widespread inward uncertainty until regime collapse. “God has numbered the days of your reign & brought it to an end.”

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    Putin is staging a huge pro-war rally in Moscow’s main stadium today. In the past when we’ve covered similar events like this we’ve found many of those attending were pressured by their employers or paid to.
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    For clarity. I don't think democracy vs integralism in USA is choice btwn secularism vs faith. Our democracy infused w/biblical religion w/o state church/confessional state. Revitalizing religion in public life not helped by integralist dreams. Churches must lead not outsource.

    Liberalism contra Secularism and Theocracy: a reply to .
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  10. Mar 18

    “Our problem is not relativism. It is identity politics which seeks to transform all human relations, all of our actions, into a righteous crusade to purge the world of sin,” warns Georgetown University's Joshua Mitchell in lecture.

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  11. Mar 17

    Is the frontier of Christian apologetics moving from epistemology to ethics? reports that happiness has become a main theme: a “disengagement from the moral universe" is done in the interest of self-expression.

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    "There is nothing to be gained and much to be lost by treating those with whom we differ as if they were tribal objects in a quasi-anthropological investigation," writes Board Chair Paul Marshall.

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    I read 's "Democracy vs Theocracy" with interest. We agree on some things and disagree in other places. Substantively, I see a third way (that I doubt will make neither today's so-called democrats nor theocrats happy).

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  14. Mar 16

    Cancel culture undermines the work of the church’s calling to confess and proclaim God’s Kingdom. It pulls us further away from the teachings and love of Jesus, writes .

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    Protestant integralism was inevitable & flows from growing currents of “post-liberalism.” Interesting to see if theocratic Calvinist & Catholic anti-democrats collaborate. My guess: about as much as during French Wars of Religion.

    New from Firebrand: Democracy vs. Theocracy by Mark Tooley
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    Methodism sees God fully redeeming the world, with His greatest triumphs yet ahead. We don’t look back but forward, hopeful and confident that as the Gospel spreads, so too will civilization move forward with jumps and starts, by divine grace, despite human cupidity and failure.

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    "The U.S. Constitution is not 'trash'" via

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    Marksism – No. 78: Putin Off-Ramp, US Empire, Christian Realism vs. Cynicism and Idealism – via

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    The vastly superior article from this morning. Great work,

    Contra Catholic & Protestant integralists, who want to privilege faith in civil law, Methodists and others in the days ahead, amid rising challenges to democracy and to religious freedom, must make the spiritual case for government by consent and not by coercion.
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    Thanks to for a fine analysis on how Methodism fits into the religious integralism debates. My thought has been: didn't we basically have Protestant integralism from approx. 1830 until about 1960? How did it work out for us?

    New from Firebrand: Democracy vs. Theocracy by Mark Tooley
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