The July/August issue of Good News magazine features many words of appreciation (from bishops, professors, pastors, and lay people) for the Rev. Dr. James V. Heidinger II, who retired this week after 28 years of leading United Methodism’s flagship renewal ministry. He is variously described as “cheerful,” “passionate,” “gracious,” “patient,” “humble,” “sensitive,” “thoughtful,” “truthful,” and [...]
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Judicial Council says no to same-sex marriage, approves Bush Center at SMU
Posted in Book of Discipline, Judicial Council, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on April 27, 2009 |
United Methodist clergy, even if retired, may not perform wedding ceremonies uniting two people of the same sex, even in states in which such unions have been declared legal, according to a ruling issued Monday by the United Methodist Judicial Council. That ruling (Decision 1111) stemmed from a resolution passed at the 2008 session of [...]
UM Judicial Council convenes for Spring session
Posted in Book of Discipline, Discipleship, General Conference, Judicial Council, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The United Methodist Judicial Council, opening its Spring session today in Denver, Colorado, will hear cases relating to homosexual “marriage” ceremonies, church membership, and the planned George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. (See full docket here—PDF.) The Council is the denomination’s supreme court and rules on questions of constitutionality in church law [...]
Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dr. Ed Tomlinson, who served for eight as years executive assistant to the bishop of the North Georgia Conference, is expressing strong opposition to five constitutional amendments to be voted on this year by Conferences throughout the United Methodist Church. If passed, the amendments would allow United Methodists in the United States to structurally segregate [...]
John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]
Judicial Council sends controversial cases back to conferences
Posted in Book of Discipline, Judicial Council, United Methodist Church on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Citing a lack of official documentation, the United Methodist Judicial Council has sent two controversial cases back to the conferences in which they originated. One case involves homosexual marriage, the other church membership. The same-sex marriage case stems from a resolution passed at the 2008 session of the California-Nevada Conference. The resolution encouraged and commended [...]
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