United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years — one that appears on track to make historic...
United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of a legislative gathering that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.
But whether that measure maintains church unity remains to be seen. The General Conference comes as the American portion of the United Methodist Church, long the nation’s third-largest denomination, has shrunk considerably. One-quarter of its U.S. churches left between 2019 and 2023 amid conservative dismay over the church’s failure to enforce its LGBTQ bans amid widespread defiance.
Some are proposing that African and other churches be given the same chance that U.S. churches recently had to disaffiliate under favorable terms.
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