AN EXPLORATION OF TRADITIONAL AND PROGRESSIVE VIEWPOINTS

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

• The 50 year Fight over Scripture and Sexuality in the UMC

• A Messy Methodist Church Schism - WSJ

• United Methodist Church Announces Plan to Split Over Same-Sex Marriage - NYT

• Council of Bishops Acknowledge need for breakup

SOME TRADITIONALIST VIEWPOINTS

• The UMC Is More Traditional than Ever, but It Doesn’t Matter

• Specific Examples of concerns of Traditional Clergy and Lay

• Bishop Scott Jones On the UMC Divide

• Bishop Mike Lowry’s Fight for the Faith Delivered Once for All 

• Segregation and the Corruption of Methodist Discipline

• Differences that Divide the UMC by Rob Renfroe

• A Wesleyan Vision of the Christian Life  

SOME PROGRESSIVE VIEWPOINTS

STAY UMC LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Ask the UMC website:

• Read Q & A

• Read Part 1 on theology and pensions

• Read Part 2 on human sexuality

• Read Part 3 on Paragraph 2548.2

• Why We Are Staying in the UMC | Rev. Adam Hamilton | May 17, 2022 - YouTube

• #ProudtobeUMC – Committed to The United Methodist Church

• #BeUMC Campaign (resourceumc.org)