UMNS Daily Digest - Jan. 25, 2011 (U.S. Congress, Tucson, Imagine No Malaria, Bishop Edwards, Africa

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                         Tuesday, January 25, 2010
                [5]GOP dominates church's congressional group
               [6]Tucson events can serve as 'watershed moment'
                 [7]Conference's $500,000 gift fights malaria
                   [8]Bishop Edwards, mission leader, dies
              [9]African-American clergy address unique concerns


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 Editor's note: The daily digest is being resent to include a link to Bishop
                             Edwards' obituary.

"Our discourse - on both the right and the left - has gotten way out of hand
 in recent years. Civility has become a relic, when it should be one of our
                      key values." â Stephen Drachler

GOP dominates church's congressional group

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) â Republican gains in the 2010 election produced a
   dramatic shift in the party affiliations of United Methodists serving in
   Congress. United Methodist Republican legislators outnumber United 
Methodist
   Democrats two to one, or 32 to 16, in the 112th Congress.

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Tucson events can serve as 'watershed moment'

   HARRISBURG,  Pa.  (UMNS) â After the tragic shootings in Tucson Ariz.,
   politicians everywhere are calling for an end to incivility in politics.
   "Let's learn how to disagree in a healthy, not destructive, way," writes
   Stephen  Drachler,  executive director of United Methodist Advocacy in
   Pennsylvania.

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Conference's $500,000 gift fights malaria

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) â Members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference 
recently
   donated half a million dollars to the Imagine No Malaria campaign and 
gave
   $10,000, along with their efforts, to build a dormitory for orphan girls 
in
   Zimbabwe.

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                    Bishop Edwards, mission leader, dies

 COLUMBUS, Ga. (UMNS) â Retired United Methodist Bishop Marion Edwards, 71,
    who served as episcopal leader of the denominationâs North Carolina
  Conference from 1996-2004, died Jan. 24 at Columbus Hospice House after a
         battle with cancer. Funeral services are set for Saturday.

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  African-American clergy address unique concerns

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â African-American pastors face a plethora of 
issues
   unique  to  them, including the effects of lingering racism within the
   denomination. Earlier this month, 320 black clergy convened in Nashville 
to
   confront their personal and professional challenges.

   The event affirmed participants' gifts, addressed their specific concerns
   and provided "resources for ministry growth and assistance," said the 
Rev.
   Vance Ross, an executive with the United Methodist Board of Discipleship.
   The board sponsored the "Convocation for Pastors of Black Churches."


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