• yeather@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    United Methodists have always been a very liberal and progressive church. This isn’t a gimmick or boost for the masses but bringing their teachings in line with their sayings.

    • cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      The adage if youre looking to split hairs and divide your Methodists is the united Methodists were always more free and the free Methodists more united.

      Its a broad tent, most of which didn’t directly mean evangelical when I grew up, but there’s still free Methodists that don’t believe in dancing.

      Openly serving gay and lesbian clergy was the hot gossip 20 years ago, it’s been a slow move but they got there.