Part 12 of the series answers questions about the status of disaffiliation in the denomination during the lull between regular annual conference sessions and the special sessions scheduled later this year.
Though there are advocacy groups on both sides of the disaffiliation debate in the Liberian Conference, its bishop said he “will remain a United Methodist until otherwise ordered.”
A court order had the Oklahoma Conference scrambling to hold an unplanned special session in August to vote on the disaffiliation of a church that filed suit. The conference also is appealing the ruling, arguing the judge’s order violates the First Amendment.
Recent efforts by parts of The United Methodist Church in Europe to leave the denomination raise questions about autonomy, connectionalism and church polity.
