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Defiance of rules passed by General Conference goes back to the earliest days of the first Methodist denomination in the U.S. A United Methodist professor writes about why the current debate over homosexuality is driving a church separation.
The United Methodist Church risks the same errors of the past if it keeps dividing itself into different factions, writes the head of the Methodist Federation for Social Action.
United Methodist centrists and progressives have made common cause in working for the inclusion of LGBTQ people in church life, but a veteran General Conference delegate thinks the coalition could be short-lived.
