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Monday, November 4, 2024

Bishops urged to perceive God’s ‘new thing’


On the eve of a nail-bitingly tense U.S. presidential election, Council of Bishops President Tracy S. Malone reminded her fellow bishops that God’s deliverance is a theme that runs throughout Scripture.

She also spoke of how she sees God’s deliverance already at work as The United Methodist Church begins anew after years of internal rancor over the status of LGBTQ people.

“The United Methodist Church is moving forward choosing the pathway of love,” Malone said Nov. 4 in her first presidential address to the bishops. “And it is this love that we embody and multiply and witness in our communities and in the world.”

Some 100 active and retired bishops gathered this week at the United Methodist-related Epworth by the Sea Conference Center to discuss the denomination’s future and role in the world.

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