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United Methodist Clergy Rally to Support for Marriage Equality United Methodists from across the United States will gather to affirm their support for marriage equality. The event will celebrate clergy who affirm they will offer the Church’s blessing to all couples. Currently, the United Methodist Church prohibits clergy from performing weddings and recognizing same-gender couples. [...]
My name is Giselle Lawn, from Calhoun, Georgia, in the North Georgia Conference, and I love the Lord. I lived my entire life in the closet, suppressing the person God had created me to be and living according to societal norms and expectations until six years ago. Please join with me for a short prayer. [...]
My name is David Weekley. I am a husband, a parent, and a grandparent. I am an ordained United Methodist clergy and I will celebrate thirty years of ordained ministry next month despite any abusive language or actions happening across the street at our General Conference. I am also an author. In February of 2011 [...]
The General Conference of The United Methodist Church has shut down the plenary hall to everyone except delegates. A petition that would acknowledge the honesty that faithful United Methodists disagree on the place of LGBT people in the church was defeated. LGBT people and their supporters sang and served communion to all. In response, the [...]
On Wednesday, May 2nd, Will Green led a group of protestors from the Common Witness Coalition onto the plenary floor of General Conference, shouting concerns about the lack of LGBT voices in The United Methodist Church.
- Jorge Lockward - So, here I am, Tampa, 2012, as the General Conference gears up yet again to debate my life and “decide” if who I am is compatible with Christianity. It started 47 years ago in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where I was born and raised in an evangelical family. I could not [...]
- Jared Littleton - In the United Methodist church, we celebrate our practice of open communion. A practice where all who seek to be in relationship with Jesus Christ are escorted to the table where they may eat and drink in God’s grace. It is a hallmark of who we are and a testament to [...]
On the second floor of the Tampa Convention Center on Monday, April 30th, day six of the 2012 United Methodist General Conference, Methodist Students, Seminarians, and Young Adults for an All-Inclusive Church (MOSAIC) broke out into song and dance.
- Rev. Dr. Evelyn R. McDonald – On July 26, 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed into law The Americans with Disabilities Act. Unfortunately, churches were not mandated to become accessible. What this has done is to leave outside the walls of our churches millions of people. (Accurate world–wide statistics are not yet available [...]
