Omnia Methodist Posts

The United Methodist Church leadership has clarified that a recent ruling from its top court allowing pastors to determine if they can officiate same-sex weddings dispute objections from church trustees does not overrule regional bans on the unions. The United Methodist Judicial Council ruled last month that church trustees could not prohibit a pastor from […]

From May 26 until June 4 of 1940, French and Belgian forces engaged in one of the biggest evacuation operations ever undertaken at that time. About 198,000 British soldiers and 140,000 French and Belgian troops were hastily evacuated from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used […]

Daren Mehl’s recent CP op-ed astutely exposed the dangers associated with “Side B” Christianity, which he defined this way: “People attracted to the same sex, though remaining celibate in obedience to the Bible, still can call themselves ‘gay Christians’ and see their attraction as part of their identity which should be acknowledged like one’s race […]

Christians in my country are being massacred daily, and our government isn’t doing anything about it. Nigeria has become the most difficult place to live as a Christian. According to an April 2023 report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, at least 52,250 persecuted Christians have been killed in the […]

David C. Gibbs III serves as president and general counsel of the National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL), a legal ministry that protects the rights of churches and Christian organizations nationwide, with offices in California, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas. A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Mr. Gibbs speaks regularly at churches […]

The United Methodist Church’s highest court has ruled that pastors, not trustees, have the final say on whether clergy can officiate a same-sex wedding on church property. The United Methodist Judicial Council issued Decision Number 1516 last Friday, centering on whether trustees could stop a pastor from officiating a same-sex wedding on their church property.

Dear Pastor, I wish I did not have to write this letter. I wish your story were an anomaly, a rare and isolated incident in the life of the church. Unfortunately, your experience is one of many, a tragic reminder of the pain that can arise from the very place meant to bring healing and […]

In a new round of rulings this month on lawsuits by breakaway churches against the United Methodist Church’s Alabama-West Florida Conference, judges in Coffee County and Dale County declined the denomination’s request that the lawsuits be dismissed.

I have read with great dismay the rulings which have come out of the Judicial Council since General Conference 20/24 regarding efforts by some annual conferences to allow congregations to leave the denomination using either a “gracious exit plan or by allowing the church to close and then allowing the members to purchase the property. […]

A decision handed down last week by the highest court in the United Methodist Church (UMC) further erodes space for traditionalists within the denomination. Pastors will have sole discretion as to whether or not same-sex marriages will take place at local churches according to an April 29 ruling by the UMC Judicial Council.