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 Rick Wolcott* “When was the last time you testified about God’s grace at work in your life? When was the last time you gave witness to how God carried you through a situation or circumstance that you know that it was only by the grace of God that you survived and still have a [...]
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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