Where Do We Go From Here, UMC?
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Where Do We Go From Here, UMC?
Conversations between a local church pastor and denominational leaders about the challenges ahead as we live toward a United Methodist Church that is fully inclusive of our LGBTQ+ siblings.Despite the anti-gay policies that remain in our UMC Discipline, more and more of us continue to move forward w...
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Making a Way When There’s No Map - Derrick Luruth Scott III
Derrick Scott III is Co-Lay Leader of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. A Black, Gay man, and a Gen-X leader in the church, he ha...

We Call Each Other Family - Rev. Tweedy Sombrero Navarrete
Rev. Tweedy Evelene Sombrero Navarrete is Executive Director of the Four Corners Native American Ministry. She is Diné (Navajo), and an ordained elder...

The Keyword Is Accountability - Rev. Gary Keene
Rev. Gary Keene spent 23 years in ministry as a clergy person working alongside Bishops in the United Methodist Church; as a Council Director, Directo...

Get Out of the Institutional Mindset and Into the World - Bishop Grant Hagiya
Bishop Grant J. Hagiya is a graduate of Claremont School of Theology and Pepperdine University, as well as the author of the book, Leadership Kaizen,...

We Queer Folks Are Here Because We Love Jesus - Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner
Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner is the Director of Frontera Wesley, the Wesley Foundation of Tucson. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Campus...

We Must Do The Work of Decolonizing Our Denomination - Rev. Lloyd Nyarota
Lloyd Nyarota is a United Methodist elder in the Zimbabwe East Conference, and a GBGM missionary spouse. Lloyd is on an ecumenical appointment in the...

Whenever The Holy Spirit Shows Up, The Community Widens - Bishop Karen Oliveto
Bishop Bishop Oliveto Oliveto serves as Bishop of the Denver Area. She was elected to the episcopacy in 2016, as the first openly lesbian bishop in Th...

Pensions, Property, and the Gospel - Lonnie Chafin
Pastor Molly checks in with Lonnie Chafin who has been Conference Treasurer for the Northern Illinois Conference for over 20 years, drawing on his ski...

I Am An Institutionalist and a Revolutionary - Randall Miller, Ph.D.
Pastor Molly checks in with Randall Miller, one of the most United Methodist people she knows. As a lay person, he has served as a delegate to every G...

So...What's Going On In United Methodist Church? - Bishop Tom Bickerton
Pastor Molly checks in with Bishop Bickerton about what's going on, now that General Conference is postponed to 2024 and the Protocol has fallen apart...