Judicial Council
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Judicial Council Round Up #1
The Judicial Council is our high court, and they will meet throughout the General Conference. I will work to try to go over the decisions and any implications that may come from them. This first set comes from the April 22nd meeting. Decision 1492 – lets us know that Annual Conferences and Bishops cannot make Continue reading
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Judicial Council Item 1023-01
As we turn to the upcoming Judicial Council Docket for October, the first one asks questions of parliamentary authority. This request comes from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference related to a parliamentary matter..You can read the full document (linked here, scroll down to the list), but essentially, a panel panel presentation related to a potential strategic Continue reading
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Judicial Council Fall 2023 Docket
As the UMC keeps on moving, the next thing we have coming up is the Judicial Council Meeting. The Judicial Council is our Supreme Court. It decides on matters of church law of decisions of bishops, actions of conferences (charge, annual, jurisdictional, central, and general), and other issues of the church. The group of nine Continue reading
Jonathan LeMaster-Smith 