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Have you ever been to a "Convo"? That's what we've come to call the Convocation of LGBTQIA+ people and their allies which in the past has been sponsored by the Reconciling Ministries Network and the Methodist Federation for Social Action. Convo is a chance to get your batteries recharged and your spirit strengthened as we head into the preparations for the special called General Conference next February, 2019.
This year's Convo is being sponsored by: these Love Your Neighbor Coalition (LYNC) partners: Affirmation, the Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA), Methodists in New Directions (MIND), the United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus (UMQCC), Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), and the Western Methodist Justice Movement (WMJM).
Plans are firming up around the theme "For Everyone Born!" Registration is open now and early registration will end soon! So head on over to https://rmnetwork.org/foreveryoneborn/ and get yourself registered!
There will be inspiring preachers, speakers, workshop leaders, and you! Cross-cultural and intersectional perspectives will be a part of the experience. Here's what the planners say about it:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (From Clifton UMC Communications)
Contact (same-day followup): David Meredith - 614-361-8433 or
Contact (later followup): Nick Federinko - 269-650-7251 or
Appeal Board Remands Charge Against Gay United Methodist Pastor
The United Methodist judicial process drags on for Clifton United Methodist Church pastor David
Meredith, who faces complaints for his same-gender marriage to Jim Schlachter. An appeal board in
Indianapolis has asked West Ohio church authorities to reconsider a charge against Rev. Meredith for
being a “self-avowed practicing homosexual.”
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Bishop Karen P. Oliveto has published a resource as an openly Lesbian bishop to give voice to a usually-ignored or denigrated point of view: that of GLBTQI persons who affirm their identity, their history, and their faith journey. Our Strangely Warmed Hearts: Coming Out Into God's Call is one of a series of books published for use in discussions about the future of The United Methodist Church. It is published by Abingdon and is available from Amazon and from Cokesbury as well as your local bookstore. More resources for sexuality study.
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January 31, 2018
Love Your Neighbor Coalition Statement to the Commission on a Way Forward, Council of Bishops, 2019 General Conference, and all United Methodists
In Leviticus 19:18, it is written, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” (NRSV)
Rabbi Hillel was one of the most important and influential rabbis of all time and passed away during Jesus’ early life. Hillel drew on the passage above in articulating the fundamental principle of Jewish moral law, in this famous quote: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the Torah; the rest is explanation; go and learn.”
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By Gary Shephard
General Conference 2016 is in the rearview mirror. However, for an issue extremely important to many of us, we
won’t have to wait until GC 2020 to see what’s next.
On the second Wednesday of GC 2016, the Council of Bishops made a proposal. They would form a special
commission, to be known as the Commission on a Way Forward. This commission would have as its goal to propose
how the church could move forward on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Including in this proposal
was a request that trials of LGBTQI and LGBTQI supporting clergy be curtailed (but not eliminated). It also tabled
all petitions that had made it out of committee.
Read more: The Commission on a Way Forward (Newsletter Fall 2016)