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Q & A from Pre-Conference Briefings
Posted by Melissa Lauber on

Restructuring | Budget | Pensions and Health Benefits | Disaffiliation  Other Stewardship Questions | Resolutions | Other Questions The following are questions asked at the Pre-Conference sessions on May 18. The answers, about the restructuring recommendations...

20 Resolutions coming to Annual Conference
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Posted by Erik Alsgaard on

EDITOR'S NOTE: Several resolutions coming to the Annual Conference Session were revised at the Connectional Table meeting on May 11, 2019. The article, below, and that which appears in the newspaper, were accurate at the time of publication. This year, the Baltimore-Washington Annual...

Court OKs part of Traditional Plan, exit plan
Posted by Guest Author on

By Linda Bloom The United Methodist Church’s top court has found that while some provisions of the newly adopted Traditional Plan remain unconstitutional, the rest of the plan is valid as church law. That was the Judicial Council’s ruling on a requested review of the Traditional...