Finding Our Way: Love and Law in The United Methodist Church

Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports of
same-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways at
district, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations of the Council of Bishops where we hear prayers,
questions, and an outpouring of conviction or anguish.

We observe The United Methodist Church grappling with issues of importance that divide an...