Dozens of former United Methodist Reporter newspaper subscribers were startled and angry during the week of May 12 to receive unsolicited email from the ultraconservative Institute on Religion & Democracy's UM Action committee urging them to "Help Keep Renegade Bishop from Wrecking United Methodism!"
The mailing also dismayed the owners of the current digital incarnation of the United Methodist Reporter, causing its executive editor to investigate whether the new publication was being misrepresented.
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