{"id":5449,"date":"2025-05-07T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2025-05-07T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T19:51:09","slug":"a-million-members-leave-methodist-church-in-a-day-over-contentious-change-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"A Million Members Leave Methodist Church in a Day Over Contentious Change in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the United Methodist Church lost over one million members from the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Conference in West Africa, constituting one of the largest departures in the embattled denomination\u2019s history. In recent years, the United Methodist Church has faced substantial criticism from the broader Christian community over its decision to allow LGBT members in its leadership and its blessing of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Cote d\u2019Ivoire Conference voted to leave the conference earlier this year, as it determined that the UMC had become distanced \u201cfrom the Holy Scriptures\u201d and \u201cwas no longer suitable\u201d to be involved with. In a Methodist Church Council of Bishops statement, President Tracy Malone specified that while the church has removed \u201crestrictive language\u201d that prevented LGBT individuals from leading, it does not prevent local churches from adhering to their beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the United Methodist Church lost over one million members from the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Conference in West Africa, constituting one of the largest departures in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}