Ecumenical Interreligious Relations

1953General Convention approves dialogue with the Methodist Church, meets from 1953-1961 1968United Methodist Church formed 1988General Convention commends United Methodist document on nuclear weapons 1991General Convention resolution to “Establish a Dialogue with Historic Black Methodist Episcopal Churches” 1996International Anglican-Methodist Dialogue releases “Sharing in the Apostolic Communion,” affirmed by General Convention in 2006 1996United Methodist document on Baptism, By Water and…

By Hank Jeannel By 1994, Fort Ord, a U.S. Army post in California’s Monterey Bay, was decommissioned. The thriving community of Marina, whose residents included many military families and veterans, would forever change. Epiphany Lutheran Church was “hanging by a string,” the Rev. Jon Perez said. “There were only five people left in the church…

A Lutheran Proposal for a Revision of the Concordat of Agreement As amended and adopted by a more than two-thirds majority vote (716-317) as a relationship of full communion with the Episcopal Church by the 1999 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on August 19, 1999, at Denver, Colorado. Introduction Our churches…

Representatives from the Presbytery of Long Island, the Presbytery of New York, the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, and the Episcopal Diocese of New York have formed a local dialogue group in response to recent legislation that went to both denominations’ governing bodies regarding an Episcopal-Presbyterian Agreement on Local Sharing of Ministries. Both the Presbyterian…

The United Methodist-Episcopal Church Dialogue Committee met at the Cathedral of St. Philip inAtlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 1 – 3. Major focus was given to planning strategy for upcomingchurchwide conferences in 2024; the UMC Annual Conference will occur in May with TheEpiscopal Church’s General Convention happening shortly after in June. Notably, this will be thefirst…