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Judicial Council

Judicial Council
From left, Warren Plowden, Africa University acting dean Linet Sithole, Kent Fulton, N. Oswald Tweh, Lidia Gulele and Africa University Professor Christopher Munguma take a group photo after Judicial Council members Plowden, Fulton, Tweh and Gulele visited a class at the university’s law school in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Five other members of the Judicial Council, all United Methodist clergy, visited the university’s theology school. Photo courtesy of Africa University.

Top court backs conference on church closure

The United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council reviewed questions stemming from a controversial church closure in North Carolina. The court also issued five other rulings after its fall deliberations.
Judicial Council
The next regular session of General Conference, The United Methodist Church’s top lawmaking assembly, is scheduled for April 23-May 3, 2024, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Judicial Council, the denomination’s highest court, has faced questions related to the COVID-delayed gathering. Photo courtesy of charlottesgotalot.com.

Church court reverses call for extra General Conference

The United Methodist Church’s top court has reversed course in calling for another regular session of the denomination’s lawmaking assembly between 2025 and 2027.
Judicial Council
The Judicial Council has set its shortest fall docket in years. The United Methodist Church’s top court continues to face questions about the application of the denomination’s disaffiliation policy. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Short docket brings more church-exit questions

The United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council has set its shortest fall docket in years, but it continues to face questions related to church exits and the COVID-delayed General Conference.
Bishops
Bishop Minerva Carcaño addresses a rally of United Methodists in support of immigration reform at the Convention Center Plaza outside the 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore. Carcaño, who is facing a church trial on undisclosed charges, talked to United Methodist News about her 47 years of ministry and what The United Methodist Church means to her. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

As trial date set, bishop reflects on ministry

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño discusses her decades of ministry with The United Methodist Church and her experience with its complaint process, as she faces a church trial set for August.

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