Norman Hubbard

Jan 12, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Norman Hubbard |Daniel Kane |Katja Hoyer

By and Published January 12, 2025 Happy Sunday, and welcome back to Dispatch Faith. Hope the start to your year has been a happy one. It’s easy to throw around labels with little thought as to what they were supposed to signify originally. In that way they can function as clichés—words we use without ever really stopping to think about whether they’re the best fit for what we’re trying to communicate.

Jan 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Norman Hubbard

The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the denomination has been losing congregations by the thousands. The number of churches headed for the exit increased from just 10 churches in 2019 to 5,643 in 2023.

Jan 2, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Norman Hubbard

The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the denomination has been losing congregations by the thousands. The number of churches headed for the exit increased from just 10 churches in 2019 to 5,643 in 2023.