Reformer and hand-wringer: notes from the back row.(United Methodist Church's 1996 General Conference)

From: The Christian Century | Date: May 15, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

A delegate describes the 1996 United Methodist Church's General Conference. The membership of the UMC has declined by 2.5 million in the last two decades, and it was hoped that the conference would be an innovative one. There was innovation, but there was also resistance to change.

There was not a hint of crisis when my thousand fellow delegates gathered in Denver for the General Conference of the United Methodist Church. In a denomination which has lost more than 2.5 million members over the past two decades, and in which benevolence giving has decreased precipitously, one might have ...

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