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Bledsoe episode calls us to talk about race, racism
By Gilbert H. Caldwell, Special Contributor… As I read the Reporter article titled “Kind words, hugs and pain at event for Bishop Bledsoe,” I had two immediate reactions: First, I was deeply moved at...
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Council’s ruling could affect Bledsoe appeal
By Neill Caldwell, United Methodist News Service… ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.—A United Methodist bishop can be placed in involuntary retirement, the denomination’s Judicial Council has ruled. The ruling,...
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Bishop Bledsoe to be reassigned – but how?
No doubt about it: the UMC’s Judicial Council has overturned Bishop Earl Bledsoe’s involuntary retirement and said he must immediately be given an episcopal area to oversee. But how is that assignment...
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College of Bishops hopes to have Bishop Bledsoe assigned by January
The College of Bishops of the South Central Jurisdiction will take the lead in getting Bishop Earl Bledsoe assigned to an episcopal area, and the goal is to have him in place by January. Bishop...
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Will it be revolution or strangulation for UMC?
By Christy Thomas, Special Contributor… The United Methodist Church cannot be re-formed. It’s over for us with our current structure. The Judicial Council’s decision to revoke the involuntary...
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Process on track to give Bishop Bledsoe an assignment by January
Bishop Janice Riggle Huie, president of the South Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops, said the process is on track to have reinstated Bishop Earl Bledsoe begin a new appointment in January.The...
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It’s official: Bishop Bledsoe assigned to Northwest Texas, New Mexico
Bishop Earl Bledsoe Bishop Earl Bledsoe, involuntarily retired and then reinstated to active duty by the UMC’s Judicial Council, has been assigned to the Northwest Texas and New Mexico Conferences. The...
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GC vies with Judicial Council as 2012’s biggest news-maker
Summarizing a full year in the life of the sprawling, conflicted United Methodist Church is always a challenge. Every fourth year, it gets tougher. That’s because General Conference—the quadrennial...
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Judicial Council rules in dispute between Western Pennsylvania, East Africa...
Bishop Daniel Wandabula By Neill Caldwell, for United Methodist News Service… SEATTLE — A 10-year financial dispute between the Western Pennsylvania Conference and the East Africa Conference that wound...
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Costs are in, implications still debated, in Bishop Bledsoe controversy
The arguments go on about whether the victim in the failed effort to oust Bishop Earl Bledsoe was accountability for bishops or Bishop Bledsoe himself. Bishop Earl Bledsoe, now leading Northwest Texas...
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