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Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel A faithful follower of this blog asked me to post something about Walter Rauschenbusch which I’m glad to do. He
The General Conference 2024 promises to be a consequential meeting for the UMC. A number of challenges face the denomination, and those challenges have only been exacerbated by the postponement of the 2020 meeting. The last year, the UMC has also faced a spate of disaffiliations, local churches who voted to leave the denomination and were given leeway to do so under a 2019 special addendum to the Book of Discipline.
Before he moved to Vegas and invented the World Series of Poker, he bootlegged whiskey and killed at least one man in Dallas. A new book, Blood Aces, from which this excerpt was taken, chronicles the early life of the gambling legend.