Rev. Margie McNeir
Hey Amarillo
English - October 09, 2023 21:18 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Personal Journals amarillo amarilloleaders amarillonews amarillotexas amarillotourism amarillotravel interview local localpodcast localpolitics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A conversation with Rev. Margie McNeir, an 83-year-old minister in the United Methodist Church, the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. McNeir moved to Amarillo after retiring from a ministry career in the Metroplex. Over the past few years, she's had a front-row seat to theological disputes within the UMC denomination related to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. When every local UMC-aligned church decided to depart from the denomination, Amarillo would have been the largest city in the nation without a UMC church. So McNeir led a group to charter the new Amarillo United Methodist Church, which now meets on the Bell Street campus of St. Luke Presbyterian. This episode is sponsored by PestTex Pest Control and Storybridge.