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Affirmation is an activist caucus of LGBT people, and our allies.
 

Affirmation is an activist, all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization with no official ties to The United Methodist Church.

Affirmation's Mission Statement: As an independent voice of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people, Affirmation radically reclaims the compassionate and transforming gospel of Jesus Christ by relentlessly pursuing full inclusion in the Church as we journey with the Spirit in creating God's beloved community.
Beth Stroud

The story of a lesbian United Methodist clergywoman in Philadelphia.

Bloom in the Desert Ministries - A new independent, progressive, inclusive, Christian, Methodist ministry. We are a “new start” caring community of grace, mercy and justice. Our purpose is to empower persons through personal faith and community action to be who God created them to be. In living out our compassionate vision in the Coachella Valley of Southern California, we commit ourselves to full inclusion of all persons without regard to status or economic condition and we celebrate race, color, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identities.

Cambridge Welcoming Ministries is an open and affirming, progressive faith community dedicated to proclaiming God's love for all with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and straight persons. A Ministry of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Refusing to commit itself to remaining within the United Methodist denomination or leaving it, the Church Within A Church movement declares:

 

Our Mission: 
To BE Church in a fully inclusive way.

We commit ourselves as disciples of Jesus Christ to full inclusion of all persons without regard to status or economic condition and celebrating race, color, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identities.  We covenant to:

  • Embody a theological foundation within the Wesleyan tradition

  • Grow a network

  • Identify and create resources 

  • Implement new ministries and church starts and revitalizations

Finishing the Journey:
Questions and Answers
from United Methodists of Conviction

 A book to help guide you through the issue of homosexuality and the church. Published by Northaven United Methodist Church, it has been written by 15 United Methodists, most of whom are ministers and seminary scholars.

The purpose of this web site is to provide United Methodist clergy and laity with information about the alarming implications of recent Judicial Council decisions. This web site will be updated frequently to provide information related to these rulings. The site will provide WAYS TO TAKE ACTION to oppose, reverse and/or override Judicial Council decision #1032 and to work for a fully inclusive church. Please endorse the "Here We Stand" declaration.

An independent organization uniting United Methodist activists to take action on Justice, Peace, and Liberation issues in the world.

Reconciling Ministries Network is a national grassroots organization that exists to enable full participation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life of the United Methodist Church, both in policy and practice.
-RMN Mission Statement

 

 

(Methodist Students for an All Inclusive Church)

United Methodists Affirming Christ's Teachings in our Nation

This website exists to serve as a resource for the many United Methodists who know that Jesus' open and welcoming ways were not confined to the traditional religious teaching of his day.

There are some very well-funded organizations whose agenda it is to take control of the United Methodist Church (as well as other denominations) and who use the same techniques that led to the religious right coming to control the Southern Baptist Church. Their agenda is to constrain the wisdom of John Wesley in emphasizing both the works of mercy of social justice and works of piety of attending to the presence of God. They are very selective when it comes to who should be treated in a just manner and who shouldn't. In other words, they may be long on piety, but quite deficient when it comes to social justice.

This site contains information regarding the funding and perspective of the IRD (Institute on Religion and Democracy), under whose influence and coordination fall the Confessing Movement ("Good News") and other examples of the "Religious Right." You'll also find links to resources advocating a church that truly does have "open hearts, open minds, and open doors."

 

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