If I were in your shoes and got the option of a UMC-C ("Conservative") which was really the church I great up in, I would stick to that (I'm not particularly adventurous)
As a person who's debated with you for years (must be nigh on 11 years now), I would also suggest perhaps a pilgramage to the Holy land, perhaps also praying with the Orthodox, the Orientals, the Copts
Let's pray that #3 does happen
My problem with staying in methodism is the likelihood that there is something systemically wrong with it, that any new body will succumb to the same flaw in the next generation or so.