by Lloyd T. Nyarota
June 18, 2019
Special to United Methodist Insight
As an African United Methodist pastor, I have come to view the 2019 General Conference much like the 1976 Geneva Conference that tried to resolve the issue of white colonial rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
My late mentor, Bishop Abel Tendekai Muzorewa, saw the Geneva Conference as focused more on who must have power and control in the new nation that was to be born. Yet after the Geneva Conference more people were killed for no apparent reason. The 2019 General Conference results haven’t killed anyone physically, but they has done great spiritual and political damage to The United Methodist Church. That’s why I call the 2019 General Conference “Africa’s Great Betrayal: A Harvest of Thorns.” [Continue reading...]
(Note: Rev. Nyarota was a speaker at the first retreat of the Western Methodist Justice Movement in 2014, where I first heard him speak.)