Bishops offers video as resource for One Church plan discussions
The Council of Bishops is offering a video outlining the One Church Plan as a resource for annual conferences as they prepare for the...
VIDEO: Reactions to #GC2012 Action Re: Homosexuality
Rev. David Valera interviewed four delegates regarding their reaction to the recent vote(s) of General Conference on the issue of inclusive language and those...
Silent Protest at General Conference #UMCGC
Video by Rev. David Valera, PNW Dir. of Connectional Ministries
May 14, 2016 | PORTLAND, Oregon
During the plenary session at General Conference on Saturday, May 14,...
Heading Home: As general conference concludes what’s next for the local churches?
By Pam Brokaw
May 19, 2016 | Portland, Oregon
How will local churches respond as the Council of Bishops prepares a two-year process to discuss a...
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....
What to expect when you’re expecting to be a General Conference delegate
The Pacific Northwest Conference is planning to elect its delegates for the 2020 United Methodist General Conferences during its Annual Conference at the Showplex Center in Puyallup on June 22-24, 2018. Rev. Mary Huycke provides this overview of what you are signing up for if elected to serve as a clergy or lay delegate.
May 17 wrap-up: Schism rumors quashed
By Joey Butler
May 17, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
General Conference 2016 may have started off slowly, but it’s full steam ahead now. On a...
General Commission on the Status and Role of Women Monitoring Report
DCA 8: Monitoring Report (Thursday, May 19)
Thursday, May 19, 2016 | Portland, Oregon
As we continue in plenary, we have been led carefully by members...
Did We Find Our Way Forward?
"Did we find our way forward? I think we did, just not in the way many expected or hoped," writes Inland Missional District Superintendent Gregg Sealey reflecting on the recent General Conference. Since returning home from St. Louis, he has been listening to how people here are processing the decisions made.
Franklin Graham, Barack Obama, and how we respond to difference
By Patrick Scriven
On Tuesday, conservative Christian provocateur Franklin Graham offered his support to a Catholic priest in South Carolina who denied former US Vice...
