Texas Supreme Court will hear case on SMU break with United Methodist Church

DALLAS ΓÇö The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could determine whether or not SMU can cut ties with a regional governing body of the United Methodist Church.

The United Methodist ChurchΓÇÖs South ...

Do not click on the link above.
You will have to shut down to get out of it. Thanks "ThisIsOurTime" for wasting my time. So Christian of you.

Lol, you shouldn't have to click on the link. I posted the whole article but wanted to give them credit. Sorry if you had some trouble with it. I clicked ...

United Methodist Church To Split Over Whether Or Not To Be Christians

NASHVILLE, TN Leaders from the United Methodist Church have announced a tentative plan to split the church over differences on whether or not Methodists should be Christian or some sort of social group with a vague deist motif ...

We are not a religious school. Perkins is the smallest school at the university and also is the least productive to the whole. (Less donations, prestigege, students and alumni then any other school at SMU). It worked out ok for Duke and USC to separate from the church - we need to do the same. Let ...

We are not a religious school. Perkins is the smallest school at the university and also is the least productive to the whole. (Less donations, prestigege, students and alumni then any other school at SMU). It worked out ok for Duke and USC to separate from the church - we need to do the same. Let ...

friarwolf wrote:You just continue to emphasize SMU and let southern methodist university drift away.

That would be pretty disrespectful to all the Methodists who started and supported the school.

Yes. We havenΓÇÖt been a church school for generations. ItΓÇÖs silly for the Methodist church to try to hang onto this. Let us go and be officially what we have been for 50 years,

But how would you reimburse them or the donors who thought they were supporting a Methodist school? Seems like a lot ...

When I give to SMU, I am giving to the school. If I want to support the Theology School only, I could specify my gift. If I want to support my Church, I give directly to them. I was raised Methodist but that had very little to do with why I chose SMU and I suspect that is the case with the majority ...

When I give to SMU, I am giving to the school. If I want to support the Theology School only, I could specify my gift. If I want to support my Church, I give directly to them. I was raised Methodist but that had very little to do with why I chose SMU and I suspect that is the case with the majority ...

Yes. We havenΓÇÖt been a church school for generations. ItΓÇÖs silly for the Methodist church to try to hang onto this. Let us go and be officially what we have been for 50 years,

But how would you reimburse them or the donors who thought they were supporting a Methodist school? Seems like a lot ...

Also, if this were to take place, what would the new name of SMU be since it would be wrong to keep Methodist in their title as a then atheistic university?

tristatecoog wrote:Thisisourtime, did you attend SMU?

No, but I did grow up in Dallas and so am familiar with the university.

Hopefully, I have just overlooked it and the thread wasn't actually deleted but it no longer appears to be showing here nor is it listed in my history of posts. This is very disturbing.

I understand some people want SMU to be a secular institution but that doesn't change its history as a Christian ...

in no way could they go from 8,500 to 20,000 and still have the tuition they have - there is a limited market for 45k a year in tuition and there aren't that many full boat payers at that price.
If you throw in graduate students they were over 10,489 in 2017 and am sure that has risen a little ...

$1 Billion is the minimum for serious university campaigns these days. UH raised over $1 billion ahead of schedule and is continuing for more.

It seems like TCU is using some funds to expand the Neeley School. Their MBA program only graduated about 55 per year. The undergrad program is much ...