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Judicial Council

Ask The UMC series provides insight into legislation that went into effect immediately after the 2024 General Conference and major changes that will go into effect beginning in January, 2025. Graphic by Laurens Glass, United Methodist Communications.

Ask The UMC: Part 5: Ending disaffliation

The 2024 General Conference received nearly 30 petitions to request that the disaffiliation provisions of the expired Paragraph 2553 be extended in some way. Instead, it deleted the paragraph. How did this happen, and what will happen now that disaffiliation is no longer an option?
Judicial Council
The Judicial Council is meeting this fall for its first session since this year’s General Conference. It will be the last session using the current 2016 Book of Discipline before the new Discipline is released in January. Most of the new measures passed by General Conference take effect in the U.S. on Jan. 1. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Bishops, deaconesses and exits on court agenda

The United Methodist Church’s top court faces legal questions about actions at the recent General Conference, U.S. bishop assignments and a property dispute in Liberia.
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N. Oswald Tweh, president of the Judicial Council, speaks during the United Methodist General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., on May 3. The church’s top court released five decisions and a memorandum on its final day in response to a flurry of requests for declaratory decisions. Photo by Larry McCormack, UM News.

Delegates keep church court busy at assembly’s end

The United Methodist Church’s top court released five decisions and a memorandum in response to questions raised during the last two days of General Conference.
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A procession of United Methodist bishops leads opening worship at the United Methodist General Conference in Charlotte, N.C. The United Methodist Church’s top court released two decisions related to bishops on May 2. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Church court voids change to bishop expenses

The United Methodist Church’s top court released two decisions related to bishops. One struck down a petition that General Conference passed earlier this week.

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