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About a half-dozen speakers decried the vandalism at the church and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

United Methodists reacted to their general conference’s third postponement—this time to 2024—with emotions ranging from outrage to relief. Many also expressed weariness with the uncertainty that has faced the United Methodist Church since before the pandemic. The hope was that the denomination’s top lawmaking body would resolve the UMC’s longtime debate over LGBTQ inclusion

Martha E. Vink (left) and Alka Lyall (right) lead a Holy Communion service at an Advent gathering in 2019 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. (Photo courtesy of LMX) A group of progressive United Methodists and other Christians have launched a new denomination named the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX. The new church aims to center on the voices of people of color as well as queer and transgender individuals—those the LMX organizers see as marginalized in the United Methodist Church. “We are a grassroots denomination of former, cur...