United Methodist bishops open spring meeting with message of unity amid schism
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More than 100 bishops from across the globe are gathering through Friday on Zoom to discuss the future of the denomination, according to the Council of Bishops.
Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey, the outgoing president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, opened the bishops’ spring meeting Monday (April 25) with a recap of the historic events the denomination has faced since she took office in 2020: political turmoil in the United States and beyond; the war in Ukraine; a global pandemic that forced many churches — and the bishops’ twice-yearly meetings — online.
And of course, there’s the big one: a looming schism in the United Methodist Church.
[…] And some conservative United Methodists have announced that — rather than wait for the next General Conference meeting to vote on a plan to split the denomination over disagreement about same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy — they plan to leave the denomination on May 1 to form a new expression of Methodism, the Global Methodist Church.
Tensions are running high within the denomination, the bishop said.
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