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"Many Waters Cannot Quench Love:" United's Response to the UMC General Conference.

By United Theological Seminary | on 04, Mar 2019 |   news Voice lgbtq statement Politics Methodist Studies

This week a special General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to reaffirm and even to strengthen its opposition to same-sex marriage and to gay clergy. When the majority of delegates dec[...]

United Rejects Religious Discrimination in Health Care

By United Theological Seminary | on 28, Feb 2018 |   social justice Chaplaincy seminary social transformation injustice interreligious chaplaincy Voice statement healthcare Civil Rights

On January 18, 2018, the Trump Administration announced the creation of a “civil rights” division within the Department of Health and Human Services that would allow health workers to discriminate aga[...]

On Repentance and Glass Houses: A Response to Charlottesville by United President Dr. Lewis P. Zeidner

By Dr. Lewis P. Zeidner | on 22, Aug 2017 |   racism repentance injustice president statement

Many in our United community have waited with frustration as I have struggled to pen a response to the events of the last week. My challenges have not been about renouncing the events of Charlottesvil[...]