Pacific Northwest board joins in removing LGBTQ bar
UPDATES with PNW board action
By Kathy L. Gilbert
May 6, 2015 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS)
The Pacific Northwest board of ordained ministry voted May 5 to affirm...
PNW Board of Ordained Ministry releases statement on ministry candidates, sexual orientation, and gender...
By Patrick Scriven
May 6, 2016 SEATTLE, Wash.
When it met yesterday at Ronald United Methodist Church just north of Seattle, the Pacific Northwest Conference Board...
Commentary: GC2016 will hear Lumad plight
Commentary by the Rev. Liberato Bautista
New York (UMNS)
Rice not bullets. Farm implements not militarization. Plowshares not swords. One would think that the choice is clear....
General Conference Executive Committee alters Rule 44 recommendation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2016
Nashville, Tennessee: The Executive Committee of the Commission on the General Conference has narrowed the list of petitions that they...
GC2016: When to add bishops in Africa?
By Sam Hodges
May 5, 2016 | UMNS
It’s a matter of wide agreement that The United Methodist Church needs more bishops in its major growth...
What do I wear to General Conference?
By Megan Kilpatrick | WJ Lay Delegate
It started with a fairly innocuous question: "What do I wear to General Conference?"
True to my Millennial roots,...
Living with Tension, Standing for Justice
By Irene DeMaris
We knew where the speaker was heading. Every word he spoke clearly led to one extremely specific topic. Each and every word we...
GC2016: Remaking the denomination’s map?
By Heather Hahn
May 4, 2016 | UMNS
Could reshaping the map of The United Methodist Church help strengthen the denomination?
Delegates to the 2016 General Conference,...
Oh Crap!
By Rev. Mary K. (Sellon) Huycke | PNW Clergy Delegate to #UMCGC
I came home from a retirement party last night to find that the shower...
On Sore Feet and Broken Hearts
By Rev. Peter K. Perry, Olympia First UMC
Last Sunday we had over 50 people walking in the annual CROP Walk from First Olympia, raising...
