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Retired bishops and African-American church leaders joined together to call for full inclusion in The United Methodist Church. Months before General Conference, 36 bishops signed a statement urging delegates to drop the prohibitions against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) United Methodists. Bishops Sharon Zimmerman Rader and Don Ott spoke out at a press conference [...]
Frank Bruni’s New York Times op-ed, “Java and Justice” quoted Stephen Andrew who urged a boycott of Starbucks because of the company’s support of legal marriage for loving gay couples in Washington. Andrew said, “[Starbucks] can follow Satan if they want to, God-fearing Americans shouldn’t join them on that caffeinated road to hell.” I know [...]
The Rev. Gil Caldwell I am a fourth generation African American United Methodist. Almost 78 years ago I became a “cradle Methodist” as I was born as a member of a Methodist preacher’s family in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bishop Morris Brown, the 2nd Bishop of the African Methodist Church (AME) was one of my (I do not [...]
