General Conference organizers have found a way to avoid requiring controversial fees of $200 per person and still cover the costs of The United Methodist Church’s top policymaking assembly.

The request asks the Judicial Council, United Methodism’s “high court,” to determine the constitutionality of the three models contained in the Way Forward final report.

The effect of a recent Judicial Council decision, combined with saving money on translation into three languages besides English, has delayed publication of the final report of the Commission on A Way Forward, now slated for July 30.

Responding to an adverse Judicial Council ruling and scholarly criticism of its attempts to “legislate” the Commission on A Way Forward report, the Council of Bishops has amended the call for the 2019 General Conference.

Some U.S. annual conferences have endorsed the One Church Plan for United Methodist unity, while others have refused to take up formal consideration of the model.

Mississippi conference leaders have invoked the trust clause to claim the property of First UMC in Louisville, Miss., where the congregation voted to leave the denomination.

Can a book “just chock full of a lot of the very principles that Scripture teaches about the value of people” help prepare delegates for the special 2019 General Conference on United Methodist unity?

How to pay for the 2019 Special General Conference – and how to tone down the anger and mistrust of previous sessions – has challenged the agency charge with running the church-wide policy-making assembly.

The United Methodist Council of Bishops wants to give annual conferences, congregations and pastors the authority to decide their own stances regarding the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life and ministry of the church.

The United Methodist Council of Bishops wants to give annual conferences, congregations and pastors the authority to decide their own stances regarding the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life and ministry of the church.