By Rick Wolcott* Annual Conference 2025 will meet on the campus of the College of Wooster. The decision was made by the Cabinet following a recommendation from Bishop Tracy S. Malone, who in March formed the Annual Conference Venue task group to explore alternate sites that could host the annual meeting of laity and clergy [...]
By Rick Wolcott* The morning business session on the last day of the postponed 2020 General Conference began with a report from the Interjurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy proposing a reduction from 39 to 32 bishops serving the five jurisdictions in the United States. Delegates approved the report with 631 voting in favor and 65 voting [...]
By Brett Hetherington* East Ohio Conference delegates to General Conference took part in the historic vote at General Conference that will remove from The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church restrictive language that bans clergy persons from “being a self-avowed practicing homosexual; or conducting ceremonies which celebrate homosexual unions; or performing same-sex wedding [...]
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