Ecumenical News International (ENI) reported on May 1st:
* The United Methodist Church, meeting for its once-every-four-years church-wide gathering has approved an agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for full communion between the two U.S.-based denominations. At the same meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, the 12-million-member United Methodist General Conference, its main governing body meeting from 23 April to 2 May, turned down efforts to change denominational rules on homosexuality. *
This is good news, in that the two churches are coming together. The same process is underway here in Finland, too, and I welcome that.
This is bad news, as far as gay Christians are concerned. They still won't have full and equal rights within the Methodist church - or in the Lutheran church for that matter - which I think is sad. But given time, perhaps...
Links: http://tinyurl.com/46jpgu
