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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…
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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…
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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…
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Let’s Shake the Coal Dust Off our Feet
It’s Past Time for United Methodists to Divest from Fossil Fuels Jesus said: “If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” Mark 6:11 It’s past time for the United Methodist Church to shake…
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A Fossil Free UMC Response to COP28: The Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm for Climate Rescue
Read this also at United Methodist Insight. “My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36 (NIV) What was the outcome of COP28? What light can our faith shed on these and other efforts to alleviate climate change and support climate justice? Finally, how does the mission of Fossil Free UMC to divest from fossil…
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