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The Methodist Episcopal Church, South is most remembered for its reluctance to oppose slavery and its lack of hospitality toward [[African Americans]]. However, the church was responsible for founding three of the South's top divinity schools: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Duke University's Divinity School, and Candler School of Theology at [[Emory University]]. Vanderbilt severed its ties with the denomination in the early 1900s. Duke and Candler maintain a relationship with The [[United Methodist Church]]. All three enroll students primarily from mainline Protestant denominations, and all three have a reputation for being progressive.

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South is most remembered for its reluctance to oppose slavery and its lack of hospitality toward [[African Americans]]. However, the church was responsible for founding three of the South's top divinity schools: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Duke University's Divinity School, and Candler School of Theology at [[Emory University]]. Vanderbilt severed its ties with the denomination in the early 1900s. Duke and Candler maintain a relationship with The [[United Methodist Church]]. All three enroll students primarily from mainline Protestant denominations, and all three have a reputation for being progressive.

The denomination's publishing house, opened in 1854 in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]; it became The United Methodist Publishing House.

The denomination's publishing house, opened in 1854 in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]; it became The United Methodist Publishing House.

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