Wilmington Yearly Meeting splinters

Not a sur­prise: Wilm­ing­ton Year­ly Meet­ing (west­ern Ohio and Ten­nessee) is splin­ter­ing along famil­iar lines:

The sep­a­ra­tions stem from a dis­agree­ment over whether same-sex wed­dings are to be per­mit­ted in mem­ber church­es, or as they are often called in the Quak­er tra­di­tion, meet­ings. The church­es leav­ing WYM regard same-sex mar­riage as against the will of God.

It looks like many of the more Evan­gel­i­cal church­es are the ones pulling out of the year­ly meet­ing. The lines of con­tro­ver­sy are sim­i­lar to recent sep­a­ra­tions in Indi­ana and North Car­oli­na Year­ly Meet­ings. The big-tent cen­ter of Mid­west­ern FUM Friends seems to be pret­ty per­ma­nent­ly fractured.

https://​www​.wnewsj​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​7​8​9​3​9​/​s​e​v​e​r​a​l​-​c​h​u​r​c​h​e​s​-​l​e​a​v​e​-​w​i​l​m​i​n​g​t​o​n​-​y​e​a​r​l​y​-​m​e​e​t​i​n​g​-​o​v​e​r​-​s​a​m​e​-​s​e​x​-​m​a​r​r​i​age

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  1. Hi Mar­tin ~

    While the arti­cle focused on the divi­sion in WYM (which has tak­en more than 20 years to reach the point of sep­a­ra­tion), this year’s Wilm­ing­ton year­ly meet­ing was con­duct­ed in a spir­it of love and poignant hope. 

    I would like to encour­age those who read the news­pa­per arti­cle to also read the fine epis­tle writ­ten by Dan Kasztelan and Julie Rudd. 

    https://​wilm​ingtonyear​ly​meet​ing​.org/​i​n​d​e​x​.​p​h​p​/​e​p​i​s​t​l​e​s​/85 – 2018-epistle

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