Conservative in some ways. Liberal in others.
Entirely opposed to the dead center.
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Scott J. Jones
Scott Jameson Jones currently serves as the resident bishop of the Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, which is officed in Houston. He was born in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee, and was raised in Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana and Colorado. He received degrees from the University of Kansas (B.A. in Philosophy), Perkins School of Theology of Southern Methodist University (Master of Theology) and Southern Methodist University (Ph.D. in Religious Studies). His dissertation research was focused on Wesley Studies and the History of Biblical Interpretation.
“We Christians agree that there are deep problems facing human beings and planet Earth. But we have received good news. Literally, there is a gospel. Good spell. Good news. There is a God who has acted and is acting to save the world.”
— Bishop Scott J. Jones
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