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  • NEW: 2024 Model Divestment Legislation for Annual Conferences

    NEW: 2024 Model Divestment Legislation for Annual Conferences

    Scroll down to jump to the Model Resolution for Divestment What is a ‘Model Resolution?’ Resolutions or Legislation, also sometimes called a Petition, is a proposed rule for how the Methodist Church governs itself. Resolutions are submitted to Local Churches during Charge Conference, yearly to Annual Conferences, and to General Conference, which meets every 4… Read more

  • Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Allies for Climate Justice

    Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Allies for Climate Justice

    The United Methodist Church must divest from fossil fuel companies if it hopes to be an ally for climate justice. If fossil fuel companies were allies in addressing the global climate crisis, they would not have buried their own scientific findings about the reality of climate change in the 1970s, they would not have attacked… Read more

  • Divestment Conversation: Follow Up

    Divestment Conversation: Follow Up

    Thank you to everyone who participated in the Conversation on Divestment with Bill McKibben, William H. Morris, Steve Hucklesby and more! The opportunity was especially rich in thinking about divestment not only as an essential part of addressing the climate crisis, but also as an essential moral action–an act of faith. Please sign on to… Read more

  • Petition Launched! Sign on and ask the UMC to divest.

    Petition Launched! Sign on and ask the UMC to divest.

    Our Divestment Cafe with Bill McKibben, William Morris, and Steve Hucklesby and others went so very well today!! Next step, please sign on to this petition: Calling The United Methodist Church to Divest from Fossil Fuels. Sign, then click to the letter to see those who has signed alongside you. Your voice—in organizations, as individuals,… Read more

  • Oil and Gas – Where are we now?

    Oil and Gas – Where are we now?

    When good people have tried everything. …though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.Proverbs 24:16 It’s been thirty years…. As we see push after push for divestment from citizens, organizations, and people of faith, it is helpful to take a moment with the question, where are we now… Read more

  • Join Bill McKibben for a Conversation on Divestment

    Join Bill McKibben for a Conversation on Divestment

    Hosted by Fossil Free UMC, the UMCJ Movement Cafe, and Climate Cafe Multifaith Join us virtually for: A Conversation on Divestment with Bill McKibben. Thursday, March 7th at 10:00am Pacific Time / 1:00pm Eastern Time. Register. Our conversation will center the divestment efforts of people of faith, and the effort to divest in the United… Read more