A group of Methodists are breaking off and creating an LGBTQ friendly branch
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The fact that they couldn’t write “kingdom” made me click off the article. All the Methodist Churches I’ve driven past have LGBT flags anyway
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The word “kin-dom” has roots in mujerista theology, namely Ada María Isasi-Díaz’s emphasis on solidarity being key to Christian faith and praxis in her context as opposed to the patriarchal and imperialist systems that Latin American women have struggled against.
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That's a purposeful move away from (male) medieval imagery of God as a royal ruler to an understanding of all of us as the kin of God.
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It's not universal in America. My old Florida church remains unaffirming.
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I am not sure i like the name, and u know I hate the shorthand form.
"Liberation Methodist Connection" feels much more like something found by a committee than the actual name of a Church. But then, why abbreviate it by LMX rather than LMC?
After that people complain 5hat kids don't know how to spell properly...
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All the Methodists I know are pretty LGBT friendly, but it's not something I've looked into especially
Eta: ah, American
I'm a Methodist in America. I'm going to be a bit harshly critical of the Methodist leadership.
About a year ago, the leadership of the Methodist Church decided to be cowardly and put LGBT clergy and LGBT marriage to an international vote amoung congregations. This is cowardly because it's kind of their job as theologians to assert what the official denomination doctrine is, not ask the less informed congregations.
All Methodist churches in the world were allowed to vote, and the vote passed nay about 48% to 52%. But thing is, it was almost perfectly split with all American and West European Methodist churches voting to be LGBT affirming (my own church included), and with almost all the African, Asian, and East European Methodist churches voting against LGBT affirmation. More or less down the line regions of the world where LGBT people have civil rights, vs where they don't have civil rights.
This basically angered everyone and was widely considered to be a bad decision that was likely to result in a fracture of the Methodist Denomination.
The American and European Methodist churches which were already affirming proceeded to ignore the vote, and when the leadership told them that they needed to go along with what was decided, the individual churches mostly told them to get bent, and that said that just because it was put to congregational vote doesn't mean it's sound doctrine and that they were going to stand by their LGBT members regardless of the vote.
Apparently despite the pandemic, the fracture has been continuing to get worse.
Thank you for the information. This seems similar to the Anglican situation (though many in the home church are pleased by the stance). I've been heartened by recent moves the salvation army in the UK have made too, though I think they are still lagging in other countries.