Methodist to the Madness

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Episode Notes

Get The Behind Me, Felicia

According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17): “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” So why, in its wisdom, did Kentucky’s Whitefield Academy, a Christian private school, expel a 15-year-old girl after her mother posted a photo to Facebook of the student eating a rainbow cake in a rainbow sweatshirt at her birthday party?

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2020/01/15/family-says-15-year-old-girl-was-expelled-over-a-rainbow-themed-birthday-cake/#6913e1734a8e

https://jezebel.com/teen-has-fun-christian-school-responds-predictably-1841022312?utmsource=jezebelfacebook&utmmedium=socialflow&utmcampaign=socialflowjezebelfacebook&fbclid=IwAR244oXgeahm24ghjE7QC0NeJ0b5V8etyp3tBtENqOEJbISHlq-h5IUaURc

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/catholic-school-expels-teen-after-rainbow-sweater-cake-deemed-lifestyle-n1116136

Not Necessarily the Good News

The Methodist Church appears to be separating. The Methodist Church, the third largest Christian denomination, is dividing over the issue of same sex marriage and LGTBQ clergy.

Sources:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/religion/story/2020-01-12/can-this-church-be-saved-united-methodists-roiled-by-lgbtq-issues-consider-divorce

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793614135/united-methodist-church-announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage

https://www.umnews.org/en/news/methodist-history-mixed-on-abolitionism

https://www.umc.org/en/content/what-is-the-denominations-position-on-homosexuality

https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-1-the-changing-religious-composition-of-the-u-s/pr15-05-12rls_chapter1-03/

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