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Speak From the Floor on Divestment
Every year annual conferences meet to do the work of the church and conference, seeking to live faith through worship and agreements about how to live a life together as people of God. The worship part fills the soul while the agreements part, which begins by bringing legislation or a resolution (same thing) to the
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2026 Annual Conference Model Resolutions: Divesting as an Annual Conference from Fossil Fuels
Two Optionsof Model Resolutions from Fossil Free UMCand the United Methodist Creation Justice Movementare below. These two model resolutions are focused on annual conferences studying about and/or divesting their own conference portfolios from fossil fuels. See also another divestment resolution focused calling on on our UM Board of Pensions, Wespath, to divest from fossil fuels:
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A 2026 Model Annual Conference Resolution: Urging Fossil Fuel Divestment of All Denominational Funds at Wespath
This is a Model Annual Conference Resolution for 2026 calling on the United Methodist Church’s investment agency, Wespath, to add fossil fuels to its investment screens for all its portfolios in response to the damage caused by climate change. Any annual conference is welcome to use the model resolution as is or to change it
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“Fossil Fuels”: The New “F” Word
COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels by Sharon Delgado Also published by United Methodist Insight. These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate change. COP 30 ended not only without the roadmap to
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Communities and Churches Destroyed by the January 2025 Wildfires
In January 2025, two United Methodist Churches—Community UMC of Pacific Palisades and Altadena UMC—were burned to the ground in a devastating wildfire. Though only a few miles apart, both shared more than geography: each was founded over a century ago and leaves behind a legacy of deep community involvement. Community UMC has long been known
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Open Letter to the Council of Bishops
In this time of growing environmental and human rights urgency, the Coordinating Team of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, with love and hope for people and creation, gathered to write this letter to The United Methodist Council of Bishops. Given the importance of the Episcopacy as denominational leaders, our hope is that our bishops
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Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC
Reprinted from Mark Davies’ Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC – One World House – Mark Davies Living in Oklahoma most of my life, I have had a front row seat to watch how fossil fuel companies work their influence to protect their interests and expand their profits regardless of the impact on our
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The Road to Environmental Redemption and Reconciliation
By the Reverend Christian DeMent, Pastor of La Mesa First United Methodist Church, on His Participation in California-Pacific Annual Conference’s Vote to Divest from Fossil Fuels I finally have some time to offer a reflection on my participation in the Fossil Free Legislation that passed at the Cal-Pac Annual Conference this year (2025). First, I’d
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