The Wesleyan Covenant Association isn’t wasting any time getting itself ready to become a new denomination. Judging from its latest newsletter, WCA folks seem pretty convinced that a schism in The United Methodist Church is a foregone conclusion.
This is an important and well-documented history of the conservative movement in the United Methodist Church. It is reprinted here under Creative Commons "Free Cultural Work" license, per Hacking Christianity's site. Original post here. See also this "river" of posts from Jeremy on the WCA.
November 9, 2019 by Jeremy Smith
The seeds for the Wesleyan Covenant Association have been growing for a long time. It’s important to trace the efforts which have led to its creation of a new Wesleyan denomination.
1966: One Against the Many
The WCA consistently uses narratives of institutional oppression, “one against the many” and rallying language of minority status. This is a throwback to its origins in the 1960s.