From disabilities to dealing with suicide: Long Beach churches are focusing on the value of inclusion
The summit will have one question at its center: How can the church move beyond its walls to include the marginalized?
‘That which I knew is dead’: Methodists on the brink of schism over LGBT inclusion
The Rev. Dan Lewis of Grace United Methodist in Long Beach is among hundreds of clergy in the roughly 13 million-member denomination standing at the crossroads of a years-long dispute over whether gay-friendly policies are compatible with Christian teaching.