Delegates to the UMC Special Conference spent the day setting legislative priorities, with a bare majority prioritizing the plan which would increase LGBT+ exclusion.
UMC special General Conference to address LGBT+ inclusion gets off to a rocky start
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A special session of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference is meeting in St. Louis this week which will determine the future of the denomination.
A response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s widely-panned choice to not invite spouses of LGBT+ bishops to Lambeth in 2020
“the Anglican Communion Office has created a public situation in which two children are learning that the hierarchy of the church considers their family to be a source of shame and worthy of exclusion. … When little children are collateral damage, that is not the way of love.”
“I like to think it was the hand of God that brought us together.” -The Rev. William Mahoney
Cleveland Scene describes Burning River Baroque’s The Other Side of the Story: Untold Perspectives on Familiar Tales as “a program that takes on the issues of ‘toxic masculinity’.”
Planning for the next Lambeth Conference, to be held in 2020 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, is well under way. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon,
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth shared the following statement on their website this past week: On Friday, February 8, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court