UMNS Daily Digest - February 1, 2011 (Westboro protests, homosexuality, nature of evil, Egypt, Mehar

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                           Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011
                 [5]Students offer hugs at Westboro protest
                  [6]33 retired bishops urge end to gay ban
                 [7]Every heart inclined to both good, evil
              [8]United Methodists caught up in Egypt protests
               [9]Meharry takes part in HIV/AIDS awareness day
         [10]Correction: Stopping church sexual abuse takes training


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 "I used the opportunity to talk about love, not as an emotion, but as a way
    of living, something we can choose." - The Rev. Mark Schaefer on the
              Westboro Baptist protest at American University.

Students offer hugs at Westboro protest

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) - A group of United Methodist students at American
   University in Washington, D.C., met hate head-on when members of the
   infamous Westboro Baptist Church came to their campus Jan. 14. They did 
it
   with love, poetry and hot chocolate.

                                 [19]Read full story and post a comment»


33 retired bishops urge end to gay ban

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Thirty-three retired United Methodist bishops 
have
   released a statement calling on The United Methodist Church to remove its
   ban on homosexual clergy. Full story will follow later.

                                                 [20]Read the statement»


Every heart inclined to both good, evil

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Whenever a tragedy like the recent shootings in
   Tucson,  Ariz.,  occurs,  commentators  are tempted to call the act or
   perpetrator  evil. But that's not quite right, writes the Rev. Michael
   Williams, a Nashville pastor, in a commentary. "The line between good and
   evil does not fall between people or groups but rather right down the 
middle
   of the human heart."

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United Methodists caught up in Egypt protests

   CAIRO (UMNS) - The weeklong street demonstrations in Egypt provided some
   tense moments for New Jersey United Methodists who, like many other 
foreign
   visitors, were forced to escape the unsettled political situation there. 
But
   with the help of their Egyptian tour hosts, U.S. travel planner and the
   congregation back home, the 18-member tour group from the [22]Bridgewater
   United Methodist Church found seats on a Jan. 31 flight to Rome, where 
they
   are resting and sightseeing before returning to the United States on Feb.
   3.

                                 [23]Read full story and post a comment»


Meharry takes part in HIV/AIDS awareness day

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - United Methodist-related Meharry Medical 
College
   will join national and international organizations offering free HIV/AIDS
   testing as part of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The day, 
observed
   on Feb. 7, was founded in 1999 by five organizations funded by the U.S.
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

   Blacks experience more new HIV infections than does any other 
racial/ethnic
   group in the United States. They also have the most new AIDS cases, 
people
   estimated to be living with HIV disease and HIV-related deaths. Even 
though
   blacks make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for about
   half, 49 percent, of the people who get HIV and AIDS.

                  [24]View complete list of participating organizations»


Correction: Stopping church sexual abuse takes training

   Editor's note: This story has been corrected to accurately reflect why 
two
   church leaders left the ministry.
   HOUSTON (UMNS) - It is the kind of news every United Methodist dreads: a
   pastor  arrested and convicted of child molestation. Not long after, a
   district superintendent also left the ministry because of a case of 
sexual
   misconduct. But since those incidents about 20 years ago, the [25]Kansas
   East  Annual  (regional)  Conference  has become a model for providing
   churchgoers  a safe sanctuary from abuse, participants at a Jan. 26-29
   gathering on sexual ethics learned.

                            [26]Read corrected story and post a comment»



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