UMC Future

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African United Methodists and the Protocol in 2024

Traditionalist clergyman Rev. Forbes Matonga misses the important point that the Protocol is a different issue than the denomination's official teaching on sexuality, and the same coalition will not necessarily support the Protocol because of it. Read more

Judicial Council Single-handedly Pivots The United Methodist Church

Recent Judicial Council rulings have single-handedly hampered the WCA’s planned exiting of people, property, and resources from The United Methodist Church AND opened the pathway to revolutionizing The UMC. Here’s what can happen next. Read more

Staying Stuck in UMC Conflict

Conflict can be be a hard habit to break. In the two-and-a-half months since the news broke that General Conference was not meeting until 2024 but the Global Methodist Church was launching this year, the UMC has shown itself to be locked in conflict. Read more

It is ‘Still Possible’

A support group of United Methodist pastors, mentors, leadership professionals and spiritual guides came up with dozens of possibilities for The United Methodist Church to do and be despite its current turmoil. Read more

What Do We Mean by Unity?

There must be more to unity than a 50/50 split where we simply coexist. But neither can unity be the erasure of all difference and distinction. Unity is somewhere in the complicated space between, writes the Rev. Paul Seay. Read more