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The United Methodist Church Split, Explained. Norman Hubbard. January 1, 2024 at 11:43 PM. The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a ...
"The proposed use of ¶2549 contradicts the clear intent of ¶2549 by taking members and properties from the United Methodist Church and continuing religious activities as a new entity no longer a ...
Traditionalist caucuses within the United Methodist Church, such as the Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church, Good News, Concerned Methodists, Transforming Congregations, UM Action, Lifewatch, and the Institute on Religion and Democracy for a number of years, promoted what they saw as historic Methodist positions in various ...
On January 3, 2020, a group of Methodist leaders proposed a plan to split the United Methodist Church over issues of sexual orientation (particularly same-sex marriage) and create a new traditionalist Methodist denomination; [16] [17] [18] the Global Methodist Church was formed in 2022. [19]
A quarter of the church’s approximately 30,000 congregations said they planned to remove themselves from the United Methodist Church as of Dec. 31. The church is one of America's largest ...
The United Methodist Church had anticipated the denomination would split over the issue of how to treat homosexuality, and in 2019 laid out rules for disaffiliation for reasons of conscience ...
“The overall flavor of the story is that there is life after the United Methodist Church.” In 2018, at the United Methodist Church General Conference, leaders rejected the One Church Plan ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has a General Conference every four years to make decisions and when a decision is made, they add it to the Book of Discipline. From the 2016 Book of Discipline, the United Methodist Church Website cites multiple decisions on homosexuality. On the basis of membership, all persons are eligible to "attend its ...