Bishop urges end to falsehoods, pivot to future

Even as the denomination deals with schism, Bickerton urged fellow United Methodists to begin pivoting toward what they hope The United Methodist Church will be in the future. For more on the bishop’s speech, visit the UMNews article: “Bishop urges end to falsehoods, pivot to future”

Do I Have to Believe a Certain Way to Belong?

Author Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff shares the role of our Christian tradition and how it continues to inform our thinking today.  How do we reconcile tradition and the issues that we disagree with in our Book of Discipline, yet still find a home in the United Methodist Church? What would John Wesley think about all of this?

Should the Bible Be Read Literally?

Reverend Adam Hamilton is an author and pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. with over 22,000 members. In this video, he clarifies how we can look at the text of the Bible and reconcile the inconsistencies that we find when reading.

Update on General Conference 2024

Reverend Tom Berlin is an author and the pastor at Floris United Methodist Church, a multi-site denomination in Herndon, Virginia. In this video, he explains how we got to where we are with General Conference 2024 being rescheduled numerous times and how churches are leaving the United Methodist Church under paragraph 2553 under the Book of Discipline.

"A Message from the NAC3 Team"

The NAC3 is a “small diverse team to prayerfully envision a pathway that would allow many traditional, centrist and progressive churches in the North Alabama Conference to continue on the journey as United Methodists together.”