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Undisciplined petition.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
You note in your April 7 issue ("The Week") that the upcoming United Methodist Church General Conference will consider a petition for economic sanctions on Israel. But there's rather less here than meets the eye.
There are more than 1,500 petitions up for debate this year, and anyone with an axe to grind can submit one so long as it has a colorable relation to a paragraph in the United Methodist Book of Discipline or a subject in the Book of Resolutions. I have scanned the 91-page agenda, and there are items on it even loonier than this.
My pastor tells me that anti-Israeli resolutions have been regularly submitted--and regularly rejected--for the past 30 years. No church will ever be free of knaves and fools, but the overwhelming majority of United Methodists firmly ...
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UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES APPROVE PRO...Michigan Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches has adopted a...president of West Michigan United Methodists for Life and member of Trowbridge United Methodist Church located near Allegan...
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- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post Cryer, Newman April 1, 1984 700+ words
...will be filled on May 6 when United Methodists from all over the country...the United States alone, the United Methodist Church has grown by leaps and...pressed to describe just who United Methodists are, what they believe and...
