Tag: Elaine Heath
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Why the Duke Divinity School Controversy Matters
Isn’t this just another academic squabble full of sound and fury but signifying not very much? The recent controversy at Duke Divinity School regarding a faculty training, (the details of which were helpfully outlined by Colleen Flaherty in Inside Higher Ed), could be seen as just one more piece of evidence that the Great Divide…
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The Last Thing I Want to Talk About – Bishop Oliveto and the UMC
The last thing I want to talk about is the United Methodist Church’s legal wrangling around the election of Bishop Karen Oliveto, who came to her office last year as a lesbian pastor in a same-sex marriage. Last week the Judicial Council of the denomination ruled that her consecration as bishop was carried out in…
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