Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

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We gathered in protest because Eddie Fox has been a forceful voice admonishing the United Methodist Church to maintain its current positions on homosexuality—that “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” The UMC position denies non-celibate LGBT people ordination while refusing to bless their loving relationships, and forbids its clergy to officiate at same-sex weddings.

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We Were Powerless: Addiction, the Will, and the Evangelical Roots of the Twelve Steps

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For 200 years religion, medical science, and psychology have been involved in an intricate, shifting alliance in response to addiction. With recent studies calling core principles of AA into question—like the admission of powerlessness, for example—is AA still the best we’ve got for addressing addiction, or would a different theological model work better?

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