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Episode 341: Christy Thomas - The UMC Must Die

Jan 21, 2022

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01:43

What Do People Do When They Get Afraid?

02:42

Are You Going to Take Care of Me, Ok?

01:46

Introduction

5min

The UMC Must Die to Have Any Hope of Life

2min

Is There a General Conference?

2min

The Church Is Not Organic, It Just Doesn't Work, It's Just Awkward

2min

How Can We Create Healthy Local Churches?

4min

We Need a Trump in the United Methodist Church

2min

We Don't Have an Elimination System

3min

How Can We Hold Even a Congregation Together?

2min

What Do People Do When They Get Afraid?

3min

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Is It a Real Luxury to Be Liberal?

2min

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Itinerancy Guaranteed Appointments

2min

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Are You Going to Take Care of Me, Ok?

2min

13.

Is There a Way to Weed the Garden?

2min

14.

How Do We Deal With Sick Churches?

2min

15.

Plants, You Can't Do This to Me.

3min

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The Itinerant Preacher's Job Is to Deliver the Gospel

2min

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The Problem Isn't a Problem at the Congregational Level, It's Something That the Church Needs to Figure Out

2min

18.

The Most Effective Model of Ship Ever in Its Pure Wesleyan

2min

19.

Can We Dissolve the Church and Just Let It Go?

2min

20.

We're Just Bleeding Money

2min

21.

Are We Going to Die in a Nursing Home?

2min

22.

Are You Going to Be What Without a Congregation Anymore?

2min

23.

Are You Asking the Hard Questions?

2min

24.

Why Aren't We Putting Young People on Hospice Care?

2min

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How Do We Want to Rebirth as a Congregation?

2min

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The Voice of the Prophetic Church

2min

27.

I'll Get Your Hat

3min

Our guest for #341 is our friend Christy Thomas. Christy is a retired UMC Elder and journalist from Texas. She writes at the website The Thoughtful Pastor on Patheos. You may remember Christy from our coverage of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference in 2019. The pandemic has interrupted the UMC’s divorce proceedings, but that does not mean the schism has been event-less. Christy joined us to talk about her recent piece: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thoughtfulpastor/2022/01/09/the-umc-must-die-to-have-hope-of-life/