{"id":7651,"date":"2016-05-19T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2016-05-19T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:48:00","slug":"a-global-church-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2016\/05\/19\/a-global-church-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"A Global Church Divided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/05\/divided-methodist-church-lgbt\/483396\/?utm_source=atlfb\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlantic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0ran an article on the challenge of being a global church. In an interview with CGCM Director, Dana Robert, the magazine explored the complexity of holding\u00a0together a diverse body with\u00a0an essentially democratic polity. Currently, the United Methodist Church is struggling with\u00a0the question of whether gay and lesbian people can be ordained in the church, and whether or not pastors can marry same-sex couples. The questions threaten to divide the church. Yet,\u00a0Robert saw the current debate as hopeful:\u00a0<span>\u201cYou don\u2019t see Catholic bishops debating these issues with the laity. Their position is set. You don\u2019t see fundamentalists debating this issue with the laity. Their position is set.&#8221; But for Methodists, if \u201cyou believe in the unity of the church \u2026 struggle is part of the process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0ran an article on the challenge of being a global church. In an interview with CGCM Director, Dana Robert, the magazine explored the complexity of holding\u00a0together a diverse body with\u00a0an essentially democratic polity. Currently, the United Methodist Church is struggling with\u00a0the question of whether gay and lesbian people can be ordained in the church, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2014,2017,2086],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}