[Rev. Jeremy Smith of Hacking Christianity urges centrist and progressive United Methodists to write their ideas for the future of the UMC: otherwise, the traditionalists will walk away with the store (or farm).]
by UMJeremy
August 30, 2019
...Progressive and Centrist United Methodists should be crowdsourcing, compiling, proofing and testing legislation to be considered for inclusion in the Book of Discipline 2020. Because otherwise, they’ll be giving away the farm....
...General Conferences’ delegates start with legislation submitted long beforehand. Legislation written and submitted by any United Methodist institution, clergy, lay member, annual conference, church conference, etc. And then General Conference is where those different proposals are compared, amended, voted on, and ultimately implemented or discarded.
So you can see that the content of the debate at General Conference is written by…well, anyone—including you! [Continue reading.]