The original white Methodist congregation moved out in the 1930s.

With respect to religion, 29 per cent of the population identified itself as Anglican and 24 per cent as Methodist.

To me, it was immensely reassuring that the presiding spirit of this little Methodist college in upstate South Carolina was a Holocaust survivor from Central Europe.

I labored in that vineyard for a quarter century before making my way to a little kingdom of the just in upstate South Carolina, a Methodist affiliated institution of higher learning called Wofford College.

Left wing ideology, especially in Britain, owed more to certain Christian moral traditions ( more Methodist than Marx ) than to any political dogma. Labour leaders like Clement Attlee, the first prime minister after World War II, were not opposed to a market economy they just wanted to regulate markets in such a way that might best serve working class interests.

The observers are International Organization for Migration, Commonwealth secretariat and the NGO Working Group on Women and Peace and Security, comprising Femmes Africa Solidarité, Hague Appeal for Peace, International Alert, International Women's Tribune Centre, Women's Action for New Directions, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.