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United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles
- Bishops react to LBGTQ inclusion votesSome have celebrated the decisions, while others have stressed to their conferences the limits of the decisions, including that they don’t require clergy to officiate at same-sex weddings.
- General Conference elects commission members, othersDelegates added a host of fresh faces to the groups that make important decisions for The United Methodist Church.
- Church ends 52-year-old anti-gay stanceGeneral Conference delegates supported a revision of the Social Principles that deletes the phrase “the practice of homosexuality… is incompatible with Christian teaching.” That phrase has been part of church teachings since 1972.
- Translators bridge language gaps at General ConferenceDelegates have access to 10 languages as they decide the future of The United Methodist Church.
- May 1 wrap-up: Gay clergy ban lifted, new retirement plan approvedA source of heated, often painful, division at General Conference for the past 40 years was removed without debate: The denomination’s ban on ordaining “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” has been lifted.
- Disaffiliation ends, regionalization moves forwardGeneral Conference delegates deleted the church disaffiliation policy, passed the last of the regionalization petitions and required annual conferences to set a reaffiliation plan for churches that want to return.
- Elections held for all 9 Judicial Council spotsGeneral Conference normally holds staggered elections for the church court’s lay and clergy membership, but the pandemic has thrown off that schedule and required a reset.
- Removal of LGBTQ ban comes too late for someThere was a slight strain of sadness among the jubilant United Methodists celebrating in a courtyard of the Charlotte Convention Center after the ban on gay clergy was lifted. Those whose potential contributions to the church are forever lost were also remembered.
- New clergy retirement plan approvedGeneral Conference delegates have supported the request by Wespath, The United Methodist Church’s pension and benefits agency, to move to a defined contribution retirement plan for U.S. clergy.
- Delegates decry hate crimes against Asian AmericansResolution addresses racial-ethnic discrimination and gender-based violence in the Asian American context.
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