This article addresses several issues including whether a re-vote on disaffiliation is allowed, whether United Methodist seminaries teach doctrines contrary to those of church, and whether The United Methodist Church endorses critical race theory.
Church divisions have raised a host of questions about what it means to be connected, prompting a new look at this basic characteristic of Methodist community.
An international United Methodist group has long been working to increase the number of bishops on the African continent but learned of financial and other difficulties now facing the plan.
Amid rising church disaffiliations, Council of Bishops President Thomas Bickerton called people who are staying United Methodist to change the conversation and reclaim God’s calling on the church.