Methodists embrace irrelevance
Yesterday the Methodist Conference voted to confirm provisional resolutions on the principles or qualities of good relating, understanding of cohabitation and same sex marriages conducted on Methodist premises or by Methodist office-holders . A report on marriage and relationships, ‘ God in Love Unites Us’ , was received by the Conference in 2019 and the local District Synods were asked to consider the provisional resolutions and report back to this year’s Conference which is being held this week in Birmingham. The Conference received a report on the results of the local conferring which showed that 29 out of the 30 Synods confirmed support for the provisional resolutions. According to Methodists themselves, this is NOT what they want: as we have seen elsewhere, a small but vocal group have relentlessly sought power in the organisation and are now using it to implement fundamental change. Speakers at the Conference called for unity going ahead irrespective of the decision. Other spea...