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Those leaving are frustrated that the church has taken positions they feel are too liberal
LUBBOCK — The Northwest Texas Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches started like a regular church service. Participants sang, took communion, then prayed before voting to split from the United Methodist Church, the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.
“We are a broken body,” Presiding Bishop James G. Nunn said as he explained to his hundreds of cong...
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