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The Global Methodist Church (GM Church, or GMC) is a Methodist denomination within Protestant Christianity subscribing to views that were propounded by the conservative Confessing Movement. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The denomination is headquartered in the United States and has a presence internationally.
Founded in 1987, Lifewatch, Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS) is a 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the unofficial anti-abortion group within the United Methodist Church (UMC). [1] The organization publishes a quarterly newsletter titled Lifewatch and is a member of the National Pro-Life Religious Council. [2]
United Methodism’s global nature, with millions of church members in Africa, long kept it from liberalizing on sexuality issues, as other Mainline Protestant denominations did years ago.
The denomination may revert to its 1970s hardline abortion rights advocacy. (In 2016 the church finally withdrew from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice it had helped found in 1973 ...
Protestant supporters of abortion rights include the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Lutheran Women's Caucus. [12] [82] At its 2016 General Conference, the United Methodist Church voted by a margin of 425 to 268 to withdraw from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. The vote ...
In fact, Lisa Beaver, presiding elder of the Global Methodist Church's Oklahoma City district, said many of the churches in the first-to-exit group have joined the relatively new denomination.
Robert Eric Hayes Jr. is a member and serves as Bishop Emeritus of the Global Methodist Church. At its May 22, 2023, weekly meeting, The Global Methodist Church's Transitional Leadership Council (TLC) received the Rev. Dr. Robert Hayes Jr. as a clergy member in the new denomination and then immediately voted to confer upon him the title bishop emeritus.
As clergy, we believe abortion is not simply about “bodily autonomy” or “the rights of the unborn.” Abortion is far more complex than the false binary choice between one or the other ...