Methodist Alliances
by Mark Tooley
05/20/2008
FEW IN THE MEDIA HAVE reported it, but the recent governing General Conference of the 11.5 million member United Methodist Church revealed some fascinating new alliances involving American evangelicals, Africans, and Jews.
American evangelicals and African delegates were together able to preserve the church's definition of marriage, narrowly averting an Episcopal Church-like implosion for America's third largest denomination.
And American Jewish groups, working with evangelicals, were able to stop all divestment proposals aimed at Israel, despite support from church agency bureaucrats and the church's oldest liberal caucus group. the rest
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The averting of the implosion was narrow indeed - the fact remains that the UMC will continue to live in a state of unrest as they battle the nearly 50% agendites that they have tolerated in their midst and allowed to influence and lead their organization.
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