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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 ...
The name “Global Methodist” is no accident. United Methodism’s global nature, with millions of church members in Africa, long kept it from liberalizing on sexuality issues, as other Mainline ...
The basic beliefs of the United Methodist Church include: Triune God. God is one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. [66] The Bible. The Bible is the inspired word of God. F. Belton Joyner argues that there is a deep division within Methodism today about what exactly this means.
The provision may have been written broadly enough to allow more liberal congregations to leave the UMC because “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” could not officially be ordained or married ...
This in turn merged in 1968 with The Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church (UMC). The Wright-led faction was known as the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Old Constitution until 1946 when it resumed usage of the original name. As of 2025, the denomination had about 600 congregations, with 47,300 members in fifteen countries.
Aside from outstanding questions about churches outside the U.S., this latest decision cements the ongoing trajectories for the UMC and its more conservative counterpart, the Global Methodist Church.
Oct. 26—Typically, Matt Bridges' duties as pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church in Santa Fe don't take him very far outside Northern New Mexico. But for a week this summer, he was 5,000 ...
Scott Jameson Jones (born 23 May 1954) is an American bishop of the Global Methodist Church and former bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2004, serving until his retirement and subsequent resignation from the episcopal office and transfer to the GMC in 2023.