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General Conference 2024
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'Resist Harm' Aims to Care for LGBTQ Person, Allies at General Conference
An ad hoc movement that emerged in reaction to stricter anti-LGBTQ policies adopted in 2019 has re-launched with the aim of championing removal of "harmful language" from UMC policies and supporting LGBTQ+ persons and allies during General Conference Read more
Mar 14, 2024
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Environmentalist Says UMC Must Divest from Fossil Fuels to be Faithful to Scripture
Environmentalist Bill McKibben gave four reasons why he thinks it's imperative for The United Methodist Church to divest from making money from fossil-fuel companies. Read more
Mar 11, 2024
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Creation Care Advocates Report Faith-Based Climate Activism Increasing
Speakers at a United Methodist webinar on fossil-fuel divestment say people are "fed up" with inaction over the climate crisis. Instead they're mobilizing to move institutions to give up fossil-fuel investments. Read more
Mar 11, 2024
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Regionalization a Key Question for Africans
Regionalism aims to put the U.S. and the current central conferences at par, and ensure General Conference would only debate issues affecting the whole denomination. Opponents contend it's a surreptitious means to remove the UMC's LGBTQ bans. Read more
Mar 12, 2024
UMC Future
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'Traditional, Conservative, Wesleyan' Faith: What It IS and what it is NOT
The Rev. Mary John Dye has lived and ministered in "traditional, Wesleyan, conservative" faith. She testifies that the practices exhibited by dissolution-promoting groups – still active – don't represent authentic traditional faith. Read more
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Empire and the Church's Self-Understanding
Filipe Maia and David W. Scott gather perspectives from noted scholars on how imperial concepts has shaped the United Methodist Church, and how the UMC might craft a new non-imperialist identity. Read more
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Toward a More Collaborative Form of United Methodist Governance
The general secretary of Global Ministries, Roland Fernandes, sees the denomination transitioning from centralized governance to a regionalized and collaborative way of doing business. Read more