GCORR sponsors briefing for delegates of color, allies
By Yvette Moore
May 11, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
About 200 delegates of color and allies gathered for a pre-General Conference orientation sponsored by the...
May 13 wrap-up: Laity Address, State of the Church Report
By Joey Butler
May 13, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
After several days where General Conference delegates were clearly divided over Robert’s Rules vs. Group Discernment...
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...
GC 2012 and The Book of Discipline
Do we understand how the church works?
By the Rev. Joan G. LaBarr* | Photo by Jesse N. Love
Did you know The United Methodist Church...
April 27 wrap: First step to set-aside bishop
Delegates to the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla., are sitting at round tables for the first time, a step designed to...
Bishops’ president: Believe church can change
By Heather Hahn
May 6, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
Growing up in the still racially segregated Methodist Church, young Warner Brown Jr. knew the denomination...
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....
Council of Bishops follows tradition with letter to the church
Washington, D.C.: Reviving a tradition that is more than a century old, the United Methodist Council of Bishops sent this letter today to the...
May 18 wrap-up: Sexuality dominates debate in unexpected ways
By Joey Butler
May 18, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS) —
Last week it was debating how to debate. Today, it was voting on whether to...
Deadline to apply for Ethnic Local Church Grants
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Aug. 10 is the deadline to apply for an Ethnic Local Church Grant from the United Methodist General Board of Church...
