Singing Our Song in a Strange Land

Singing Our Song in a Strange Land

A Song for Methodists in the Coronavirus Crisis A meditation from James A Harnish, Retired Elder, Florida Annual Conference, Co-convener Uniting Methodists A solitary psalmist sang the question that echoed in the hearts of the Israelites in Babylon who were isolated...
Advocacy Groups from Across the Church Endorse the Protocol

Advocacy Groups from Across the Church Endorse the Protocol

The governing boards of advocacy groups who often are referred to as traditionalist, centrist, or progressive today announced their endorsement and support of the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation. The following organizations join in this...
Grace to Be the Church We Are Becoming

Grace to Be the Church We Are Becoming

Uniting Methodists along with people across The UMC have today received a gift from a cross-section of faithful leaders proposing a “Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation.” We commend the participants, who represented an array of perspectives and...
Gift of Hope

Gift of Hope

Across the United Methodist connection many experience impatience, discouragement, weariness, and anxiety as we continue to grapple with the fallout from the 2019 Special Session of General Conference. A palpable feeling of looming, intense struggles over what to...
Join Uniting Methodists in support of the Resist Harm Movement

Join Uniting Methodists in support of the Resist Harm Movement

Uniting Methodists is honored to be an organizational partner and support the work of the Resist Harm Movement. The Resist Harm Movement stands firmly within our Wesleyan tradition of the wideness of God’s grace in a broken world in need of Christ’s love. In light of...
Making Faithful Choices – UMC Futures

Making Faithful Choices – UMC Futures

Debates about UMC futures have been intensified by the sharply polarized and conflicted Special Session of General Conference in February 2019, and subsequent responses by many annual conferences. Along with statements of concern and preferences from bishops in Africa...
Next Generation UMC Essentials

Next Generation UMC Essentials

The Next Generation UMC Plan envisions a continuing and renewed United Methodist Church that: Welcomes everyone into full participation in the life and ministries of the church.Relentlessly focuses on making disciples of Jesus Christ.Equips persons to live as salt and...
Next Generation UMC Essentials

Constructing the Next Generation United Methodist Church

The Next Generation UMC Plan is sponsored by UMCNext and others. It consists of multiple petitions that have been submitted in accordance with the requirements of the Commission on the General Conference for consideration at the next session of General Conference in...
In Support of the Next Generation UMC Plan

In Support of the Next Generation UMC Plan

Since its inception in 2017, the Uniting Methodists movement has remained steadfast in its commitment to seeking and building unity among the many diverse groups who hold competing visions of the future for The United Methodist Church. Consistent with those values and...
New Ways for Making Room for All

New Ways for Making Room for All

The Uniting Methodists movement is animated by a vision of The United Methodist Church as a body of faithful disciples who are united in their commitment to the primacy of scripture, the historic affirmations of the Christian faith in the Wesleyan tradition, and the...

Uniting Methodists is a movement rather than an organization. As a movement we are striving for greater inclusion and genuine representation in pursuit of shared goals. The statements found on this website represent our current consensus about important questions before the church. We invite suggestions, critique, and engaging conversations from persons across the UMC. The Uniting Methodists Leadership Team views this work as iterative and certain to be added to and enhanced over time.

* Uniting Methodists is a not-for-profit movement made up of members of The United Methodist Church and is not associated in any way with Room for All, Inc., an LGBTQ advocacy organization in the Reformed Church in America.

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