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  2. Why a United Methodist court ruling closes all pathways for ...

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    Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow ...

  3. Religious disaffiliation - Wikipedia

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    According to Meredith McGuire (2002), in a book about the social context in religion, if the religious affiliation was a big part of a leaver's social life and identity, then leaving can be a wrenching experience, and the way in which one leaves a religious group is another factor that may aggravate problems. McGuire writes that if the response ...

  4. Christian views on environmentalism - Wikipedia

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    Christian views on environmentalism vary greatly amongst different Christians and Christian denominations.. Green Christianity is a broad field that encompasses Christian theological reflection on nature, liturgy, and spiritual practices centered on environmental issues, as well as Christian-based activism in the environmental movement.

  5. Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The 2006 notification ruled that such declarations did not necessarily indicate a decision to abandon the Church in reality. It laid down that only the competent bishop or parish priest was to judge whether the person genuinely intended to leave the Church through an act of apostasy, heresy, or schism. It also pointed out that single acts of ...

  6. Weekend vote ends mass exodus of MS Methodist churches for ...

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    This year is not the first time churches have chosen to leave the denomination. It is just the largest group to do so as a combined 331 of the 856 (38.7%) fully connected members have been allowed ...

  7. The United Methodist Church Split, Explained - AOL

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    The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church.

  8. Catholic peace traditions - Wikipedia

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    The early Christian church believed that Christians should not take up arms in any war, [7] and so struggled attempting to balance the obligation to be a good citizen and the question of whether it was permissible to take up arms to defend one's country. There developed a gap between the reasoning of the moral theorists and the practice of the ...

  9. South Jersey churches suing to leave Methodist conference ...

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    N.J. Methodist Conference says it is treating dissenters fairly. The lawsuit is not officially served on the conference. The Rev. James Lee, its communications director, responded to the case ...