Posted on 03/10/2022 12:31:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A prominent United Methodist Church bishop known for her outspoken theologically progressive stances has been placed on leave after two complaints were filed against her.
Bishop Minerva Carcaño of the San Francisco Episcopal Area was placed on leave from her episcopal duties after the Western Jurisdiction College of Bishops received the complaints.
According to an announcement by UMC Western Jurisdiction leadership released on Wednesday, retired Bishop Sally Dyck, formerly of the Chicago area, will serve as interim bishop for the time being.
"Under church law, complaints regarding bishops are submitted to the president of the College of Bishops in the appropriate jurisdiction,” explained the announcement.
“A bishop may be suspended for a period not to exceed 60 days when deemed appropriate and shall receive full pay and benefits during that time while the allegations are under review.”
Bishop Karen Oliveto, president of the Western Jurisdiction College of Bishops, has appointed a special committee to investigate the complaints, the details of which are private.
Oliveto garnered headlines in 2017 when her election as bishop was declared illegitimate by the United Methodist Judicial Council due to her being married to a woman, which violates the UMC Book of Discipline.
According to her biographical information on the UMC California-Nevada Conference’s website, Carcaño has served on a host of UMC General Conference leadership positions.
These include the Connectional Process Team, the Study Committee on the Relationship of The UMC with the Autonomous Methodist Churches of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Standing Committee on Central Conference Matters, the Commission on the General Conference, and the United Methodist Immigration Task Force.
"She is a recognized immigrant rights advocate … [and] has published articles on the rights of migrants in the Huffington Post and The Hill and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security,” noted the California-Nevada Conference.
“Carcaño has also long been an advocate for the full rights and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ persons joining her efforts to the work of such organizations as the Human Rights Campaign.”
Carcaño has been a vocal critic of the UMC's official stance against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, having advocated for a change in the Book of Discipline on the issue.
In 2014, when UMC Pastor Frank Schaefer of Pennsylvania had his clergy credentials reinstated after being defrocked for officiating his son’s same-sex wedding, Carcaño gave him a position leading a student ministry in California.
"Rev. Schaefer will be responsible for leading the administrative work of this congregation and reaching out to the large college community that lives, studies, and works at the doorsteps of this church," stated Carcaño back in 2014.
"Schaefer has much to teach us about what it means to love the children God gives us who happen to be gay. I pray that we will make space for him and his family in our lives and in our hearts as he comes to labor among us," she added.
This happened in the San Francisco Episcopal Area? I’m shocked!
Anybody notice something different about the United Methodist Church nowadays?
A HUGE NUMBER OF THEIR BISHOPS ( NOT PASTORS, MIND YOU ... BISHOPS! ) ARE WOMEN!!
This article just named 3 of them ...
Bishop Minerva Carcaño who was replaced by Bishop Sally Dyck.
Bishop Karen Oliveto is investigating Bishop Minerva Carcaño’s case.
Where the heck are the men who are supposed to lead?
Anybody notice something different about the United Methodist Church nowadays?
A HUGE NUMBER OF THEIR BISHOPS ( NOT PASTORS, MIND YOU ... BISHOPS! ) ARE WOMEN!!
This article just named 3 of them ...
Bishop Minerva Carcaño who was replaced by Bishop Sally Dyck.
Bishop Karen Oliveto is investigating Bishop Minerva Carcaño’s case.
Where the heck are the men who are supposed to lead?
Wow! That's super-progressive!
Most people only support LGBT. A few include the Q. Some add a +. But she also adds an I and an A.
Colored me impressed!
I guess the polling isn’t going so well.
“Bishop Sally Dyck will serve as interim bishop for the time being.”
That may not be an improvement.
My Grandfather was a Methodist Minister who built and started a Methodist church in a small town in Vermont. I attended it with my parents while growing up. As members of the founding family my family was invited to a Bicentennial celebration some years ago and I was excited to take my wife and kids to Vermont for this momentous occasion. Until I discovered that the Principal master of ceremonies was to be a woman Methodist Bishop who was an notorious LBGT spokesperson of some notoriety in New England!. needless to say, we did not attend. A sorry state of affairs to say the least.
So much for the I Timothy 3 instruction that a bishop (in fact a pastor, for bishop=pastor=elder) be “a one-woman man (monogAnAs andros).” What happens when you leave out the raw egg and anchovies from a Caesar salad? It’s no longer a Caesar salad. What happens when you pull and pull and pull that loose yarn from your sweater? You get a ball of wool. What happens when you pick and choose and change and ignore the plain meaning of Scripture or you add to it? You have a club and not a Christian denomination, AND you are cursed by Jesus Himself. Look at the end of Revelation — if it isn’t edited out. Attended a United Methodist church for years and years and NEVER heard a soul-winning sermon (See John 3 for comparison). Poor John and Charles Wesley that their movement should so devolve.
It will be interesting to find out what she did. Maybe she said or did something someone considered conservative. The bishop leading the investigation is a married lesbian.
They left out the “P”. That is next.
Article is a mountain of slag - never once mentions the substance of the complaints.
You can't make this stuff up.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.
Keep a Good Lent!
My God, if I had any doubts about the legitimacy of the United Methodist church, this article cast them aside all by itself.
Sadly, the denomination scuttled the conference until 2024, effectively scuttling the separation. The best thing for churches at this point is to simply leave and suffer the theft of their stuff.
I stopped reading as soon as I saw San Fransicko
“theologically progressive stances”
Wow!
Way to nuance “lies based on personal ideology”.
Unspun, that phrase means: new information taught in such a way as to undermine the Christian Faith that eveyone must agree with.
Let’s go the list of Spiritual gifts and look...ummm...nope, “tolerance” isn’t among them.
AAMOF, where does God even mention tolerance in the Scripture?
:: Where the heck are the men who are supposed to lead? ::
Leads take a lesson from Ruth.
Just out of curiosity, which small town?
My Methodist, paternal grandmother (1910-1978) grew up in Lake Carmi.
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