The post schism liberal United Methodist Church almost certainly will cancel its over 50 year old logo as “racist.” Very possibly it will also cancel the name “United Methodist” itself as racist, chauvinist and homophobic.
A July United Methodist News Service column by a Texas pastor against the logo said:
But when I saw the United Methodist Cross and Flame, I didn’t think of John Wesley’s heart being strangely warmed, I didn’t think of the flaming tongues of fire resting on the Apostles in Acts I didn’t think of how each tongue of the flame represents the former denominations that came together to form The United Methodist Church — The Evangelical United Brethren and The Methodist Church. My mind went back to that burning cross I saw on the side of the freeway — a symbol my mother told me was devised to cause fear in black people.
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