... Lafayette, LA, Immanuel United Methodist Church has made good on The United Methodist church's promise to open doors and open hearts. Kathleen Carter Conrad, a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Division and the General Board, reported that this church of 150 members has ... Jacksonville, TX, is taking in freshman and sophomore students from Dillard University one of our predominantly black United Methodist Universities, in New Orleans. The Dillard students will be able to continue their education ...
... not understand the TV audience, we will be as effective as a movie theater which tries to draw crowds with jerky old black-and-white silent movies in this age of wide-screen, brilliant colors, Dolby sound and computer-produced graphics. The concern of this ... communication, not the words spoken. We speak of talk shows on television, but after watching them British writer Peter Conrad concluded: On television, conversation has become a spectator sport ... Television talk is not conversation but a celebration of ...
... and the grave of the Virgin Mary’s uncle was found at Glastonbury.” (LONDON TIMES MAGAZINE, December 1, 1985, quoted in Conrad Hyers, And God Created Laughter, Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987, page 57) What’s more...the author claimed to be a ... back. It showed two little ladies; one sitting in a rocking chair, the other standing behind the chair. Both were dressed in black with little lace collars around their necks. Their distinction was this: They are the only two remaining members of a religious group ...
... we may deem strange, people estranged from us - punks, gays, pro-abortionists or pro-lifers, drug dealers, Jehovah's Witnesses, blacks, Asians, etc. Jesus is labeled a glutton and drunkard for spending so much time at table with these marginal ... spurs the disciples on to worship and to work. It is only with Jesus' departure that the disciples realize, in novelist Joseph Conrad's words, "There is no rest for the messenger until the message has been delivered" (The Rescue [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1920 ...
... we may deem strange, people estranged from us - punks, gays, pro-abortionists or pro-lifers, drug dealers, Jehovah's Witnesses, blacks, Asians, etc. Jesus is labeled a glutton and drunkard for spending so much time at table with these marginal ... spurs the disciples on to worship and to work. It is only with Jesus' departure that the disciples realize, in novelist Joseph Conrad's words, "There is no rest for the messenger until the message has been delivered" (The Rescue [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1920 ...
