This is a collection of articles and resources on staying United Methodist, rather than leaving the denomination.
Caucusing is easy. Church is hard.
by William H. Willimon, August 17, 2022
Some excerpts. Read the whole piece at The Christian Century.
Have you heard? We Methodists—middle-of-the-road, pious but not showy or pushy, cautiously into social justice but also evangelicalish—are getting a divorce. Unable to resolve arguments about same-sex marriage, a couple of years ago the United Methodists began to talk separation, deluding ourselves that we’d have a friendly divorce. By now we’ve lawyered up, and things are getting ugly....
- Stay UMC
- UMs Connected Community
- Ambiguous Loss book
- Guilt, Shame, Blame
- Stories to enhance empathy
- Bibliographies
- Why I Am A United Methodist
StayUMC: A Coalition of North Alabama Methodists Working to Stay in the UMC
Stay UMC represents a large group of traditional, centrist, and progressive United Methodists in the North Alabama Conference who love the UMC and believe we are “better together” as we move forward into the future. Our purpose is to work against the idea of the annual conference voting to leave our denomination, should the Protocol for Grace and Reconciliation through Separation ever pass at General Conference.