Jeff Sessions belongs to the United Methodst Church?

[Sharon W]

I'm stunned to find out Jeff Sessions claims to belong to the same national church that hosts progressive films and discussions locally! He is as out of step with their teachings as he is with the US Constitution. www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/600-united-methodist-clergy-file-church-complaint-against-attorney-general-n884726

[Jeanne]

Jun 19, 2018 23:16:25 GMT -8 Sharon W said:

I'm stunned to find out Jeff Sessions claims to belong to the same national church that hosts progressive films and discussions locally! He is as out of step with their teachings as he is with the US Constitution. www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/600-united-methodist-clergy-file-church-complaint-against-attorney-general-n884726

Thanks for the link, Sharon. Yes, Sessions is a member of the Methodist church. It's a big organization that has many different facets. His home church is in Alabama, where interpretation of how to integrate loving your neighbor is often lost IMHO. The UMC churches in the southeast are poised to secede from the church if a committee working to resolve a decades long controversy decides to remove exclusionary language about homosexuality from our Book of Discipline.

I'm glad that we have shown you another way for a church to be. There are many others like us. Hillary is also a Methodist. She has been more disciplined about studying, interpreting and integrating its overall message in her work and life.

I missed the corner last Friday because I was at our Annual Conference in Redlands. It was good to be with about 1500 lay and clergy members who care about justice. Some of them signed the complaint against Sessions. I haven't seen this kind of action before and I am interested in watching its progress. May it reach his heavily defended conscience.