3 thoughts on “Not So United Methodists Heading for Divorce

  1. I’ll be interested to talk to my cousin about this given that he lives in a somewhat liberalish town in the middle of deep red KS and is a) politically liberal, b) has a gay son, and c) is an active member of the UMC.Report

  2. The thing that I always see as interesting is how schism has evolved.

    “Let’s do things like X.”
    “Okay, we’ll do things like X.”
    “Let’s do things like X.”
    “Okay, we’ll do things like X.”
    “Let’s do things like Y.”
    “But we don’t do things like Y. We do things like X.”
    “Why are you splitting away from how we do things?”Report

  3. Don’t know anything about Protestant sectarian sectarianism… but this thread from Lyman Stone was interesting.

    I object to the characterization that I am insinuating.I am not insinuating.I'm saying it outright:The progressives leading the charge at the UMC are enacting a fundamentally racist policy change. https://t.co/fIzz02iAfV— Lyman Expand the House Stone, AKA 石來民 (@lymanstoneky) January 4, 2020

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    He comments also on dynamics in the Catholic church, and it had a certain amount of cross-over explanatory power too.Report

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