The Rev. Junius B. Dotson records a segment of the “Soul Reset” study series for the Upper Room at United Methodist Communications in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2019. Dotson, the top executive of Discipleship Ministries, died on Feb. 24, 2021. He was 55. | Mike DuBose/UM News An official in the United Methodist Church who helped create a proposed plan of gracious separation for the denomination has died from cancer at age 55. The Rev. Junius B. Dotson, the general secretary and chief executive officer of the UMC’s Discipleship Ministries, an agency of the denomination, died last Wednesday after a weekslong battle with pancreatic cancer.