Last week, the directors of the United Methodist Church’s controversial DC lobby office, the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), convened in suburban Maryland for their semi-annual meeting.
While I was an observer at the meeting, which concluded Saturday, I am still waiting to receive from the staff copies of important public documents from the meeting. So my fuller report on the meeting will have to come later. In the meantime, it is worth highlighting how one particular moment in the GBCS gathering encapsulated a fundamental problem for efforts of “Christian social witness.”
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