Day: July 20, 2018

United Methodists Propose Potential Ways Forward

Amy Spagna | Posted on July 20, 2018 |

The United Methodist Church, like the other mainline Protestants in the U.S. in recent years, has been embroiled in the debate over human sexuality and the place of LGBTQ+ people within the leadership of the denomination. At specific issue is a clause in the Book of Discipline – the UMC’s equivalent of the Episcopal […]

GC79: From Resolutions to Jesus and the Gospel

Bill Carroll | Posted on July 20, 2018 |

General Convention is less about resolutions (as important as some of them were), and more about renewing the ties that bind us together as the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement and reclaiming what our Presiding Bishop calls “a way of being Christian that looks like Jesus of Nazareth.”

A New Way to Fund Theological Education?

Amy Spagna | Posted on July 20, 2018 |

What is the path towards sustainable clergy education?

Generation to Generation

Maria Evans | Posted on July 20, 2018 |

“God’s truth and God’s justice gets carried from person to person, from generation to generation.”

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