The Board of Deputies has broken off all contact with the leadership of the Methodist Church
Hat-tip Solomonia.
You can view my guest post on this topic over at Harry’s Place:
Sadly, this was inevitable….
The Board of Deputies has broken off all contact with the leadership of the Methodist Church following its endorsement of a report deeply critical of Israel.
A spokesperson for the Board said: “There cannot be any engagement with the leadership of the Methodist Church until such a time that we see signs of a change in their stance.”
But both sides vowed to continue interfaith work at a local level, encouraging members of Methodist and Jewish communities to maintain regular dialogue.
The Board said Methodists from across the country had contacted deputies to express distress and discomfort with the report.
Following the endorsement of the motion at last week’s Methodist conference, the Board and the Jewish Leadership Council said the Church should “hang its head in shame” for passing the policy calling for a boycott of goods from “illegal” Israeli settlements in the West Bank and blaming Israeli occupation for hindering the peace process.
Attempts had been made to convince the Church to re-think its stance.
Tags: Church Life, Israel
July 11th, 2010 at 3:23 am
@webmaster,
I think you have missed a serious point here a point that most christians do not want to face up to, the elephant in the methodist church is not a christian debate over Israel the elephant is the de facto submission (convertion) to islam.
You are reading it as a christian attack on Israel the real reading is a religious shift from christianity to islam by the methodist church.
For methodist read muslim, for methodist church read mosque.