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My mother is a retired UMC pastor in the Big Sky Conference. She told me that the bishop has gotten death threats--which is not very Christian.

Here in Northern Virginia, my senior pastor told us last Sunday that the UMC is almost certainly heading for a schism over the LGBTQUERTY issue at next year's General Conference. [And while this is going on, the Virginia Conference seems to have nothing to say about our governor basically endorsing infanticide.]

The other thing that fascinated me about the upcoming General Conference is how the overseas jurisdictions will have 20 or so more delegates than they did at the recent called General Conference--while the North American conferences have lost a similar number. The UMC is growing overseas--where traditional biblical values are preached.