United Methodist Advocate - Connecting Methodists in South Carolina Since 1837
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Prophets who walked among us: Hawley Lynn and I. DeQuincey Newman
Hawley Lynn was a short man with a giant’s courage to bear the Word of God. It fell his lot to be pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Pickens when Willie Earle was taken from his jail cell and lynched Feb. 17, 1947. It became his calling to speak out, this product of Textile Industrial Institute – now Spartanburg Methodist College – who was the first to take his work/study transcript from there to the University of South Carolina. Read more...
Telling the Stories of Hurt in the Christian Community
In the 1980s, I went back to school at USC. Sitting with a few older students for coffee after an English class, someone cracked a gay slur. Fortunate...
Your apportionment giving at work – in Haiti
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti at 4:53 p.m. EST Jan. 12, left the Caribbean nation in shambles and rescuers and disaster teams scramblin...
Haiti Emergency:
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti at approximately 4:53 p.m. EST Jan. 12, left the Caribbean nation in shambles and rescuers scrambling to ...
Caring about prisoners has been central to Parker Evatt for a long time.
"Jesus was caring about people who were sick and in prison," he said, when asked why we should care. After the 1966 death of its founder, th...
Dancing in the rain – with help from Alston Wilkes and others
‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.’ This is the favorite reminder for ...Photos
Ski, Worship and Grow with your friends and MYP at Lake Junaluska
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LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. – Get ready to hit the slopes and participate in meaningful worship at Lake Junaluska’s Ministries with Young People (MYP) annual 
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