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It was as if the congregation was asking for a divorce. They blamed the separation on a wide range of factors and feelings, but ultimately the facts were clear: the congregation was no longer in love with the PCUSA. Whatever embers of mutual love once burned were now long extinguished.

“About as sensible as it gets.”

LGBT advocates, sitting at the edges of the convention floor, were deemed a “security concern.”

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño of the United Methodist Church is part of a new wave of women’s leadership in mainline Christian denominations—and if our recent phone conversation is any indication, she has her work cut out for her. She must assume the bishop’s role of watcher or overseer; she must surpass her male colleagues in competence to show that a woman, in her case an Hispanic woman, can be a good bishop; and, she must find a way to live out her own unique commitments with integrity. As was said of the legendary Ginger Rogers, she must do everything her male counterparts do, but in high heels and backwards.

The United Methodist Church opens another chapter on gays and lesbians’ struggle to serve the church.

Religion and the assault weapons ban.

National Religious Campaign Against Torture renews calls for investigation.

Keeping a pulpit in the United Methodist Church is about to get more interesting.