WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of more than 120 Methodists have taken out a magazine ad asking President George W. Bush to repent. The “prophetic epistle” appeared in The Christian Century magazine and asked Bush to repent of his policies that were “incompatible” with Christian teaching.
The large group of Methodists signed the document entitled “A Prophetic Epistle from United Methodists Calling Our Brother George W. Bush to Repent,” including seven United Methodist Church bishops.
“It is our judgment that some policies advanced by your administration give evidence of the spiritual forces of wickedness that exist in our society today,” the ad read.
Signers of the document included outspoken UMC bishops Joseph Sprague and Melvin Talbert, and Board of Church and Society general secretary Jim Winkler. Sprague and Winkler were arrested earlier this year for breaking through a police barricade during...