Following Christ, The Lead Conductor
By Suzanne Nicholson “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature...
Judicial Council Closes Exit Door
News analysis by Thomas Lambrecht In a highly anticipated decision, the Judicial Council has ruled that annual conferences in the U.S. cannot unilaterally withdraw from The United Methodist Church. The Council of Bishops had asked for a declaratory decision on six...
The Rev. Keith Boyette’s Oral Argument before Judicial Council
ORAL ARGUMENT ON BEHALF OF DIXIE BREWSTER My name is Keith Boyette. I am an elder in the Virginia Conference of The United Methodist Church and an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealths of Virginia and Kentucky. I represent Dixie...
Wesleyan Covenant Association Names Boyette First President
The Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA) has named the Rev. Keith Boyette as their first president. Boyette is a member of the Virginia Annual Conference and founded the Wilderness Community United Methodist Church 19 years ago. For eight years, Boyette served on the...
Judicial Council
Key questions in the Oliveto case On July 15, 2016, during the session of the South Central Jurisdictional Conference, Dixie Brewster, a delegate and lay member of the Great Plains Annual Conference, asked that the delegates to request a declaratory decision from the...
Constitutional Amendments Up for Vote
During this 2017 annual conference season, there are five constitutional amendments that will be voted on by the members of the annual conferences. A two-thirds vote by the aggregate total of all annual conference members is needed to ratify the amendments for them to...
UM Church’s “Supreme Court” Prepares to Hear Major Case: Questions and Answers
The United Methodist Church's Judicial Council, essentially its Supreme Court, will hear oral arguments on Tuesday morning, April 25, 2017, regarding the legality of the Western Jurisdictional Conference's election of an openly lesbian and married clergywoman to be a...
Three Days
By Walter Fenton- Good Friday Sometimes the sordid episode is almost too hard to believe. The fear, the hatred, the rage, the brutality, the blood, and the death - sometimes it is too horrible to fathom. But there is Jesus, on the cross, bleeding and dying, right at...
