Saturday, February 23, 2019 - Tuesday, February 26, 2019
The United Methodist Church is convening a Special Session of the General Conference solely for the purpose of finding a way forward from the denomination's theological impasse over human sexuality.
Below, you will find links to articles and additional resources to help you learn more about the special called session of General Conference (Feb. 23-26) in St. Louis and the denomination's current stance around issues pertaining to human sexuality:
- "Way Forward" resources from The Minnesota Annual Conference about the upcoming General Conference Session:
https://www.minnesotaumc.org/wayforward
- Overview of what General Conference is and how it functions:
http://www.umcom.org/…/gathered-for-mission-structured-to-s…
- Brief article about the upcoming special session of General Conference:
http://www.umc.org/…/general-conference-2019-special-session
- Q&A: 2019 Special Session of the General Conference:
http://www.umcom.org/…/q-a-2019-special-session-of-the-gene…
- Summaries of the Commission on a Way Forward's report:
http://www.umcom.org/…/summaries-of-the-way-forward-commiss…
- Read the full report from the Commission on a Way Forward:
http://www.umcom.org/news/way-forward-commission-report
- Video resources from the Commission on a Way Forward:
http://www.umcom.org/…/way-forward-commission-offers-video-…
- PDF of "Modified Traditional Plan:"
https://wesleyancovenant.org/…/Modified-Traditional-Plan-Du…
- Website dedicated to "The Simple Plan" and a link to the actual legislation:
https://um-forward.org/
- Human Sexuality and The United Methodist Church:
http://www.umc.org/what-we-bel…/human-sexuality-backgrounder
- Human sexuality in our Social Principles and Book of Resolutions statements:
http://www.umc.org/…/what-is-the-denominations-position-on-…
- Additional United Methodist resources around human sexuality:
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/homosexuality-resources