by Linda Bloom 7/24/18 UMNS
For a brief period in the 1960s, Methodists in the U.S. and in Great Britain considered becoming one body.
But the competing attentions of other possible merger partners in their own countries put that idea on hold.
Instead, a different kind of agreement, called a concordat, was finalized in 1968. And in a year of noteworthy anniversaries, a small gathering of United Methodists and British Methodists in London will celebrate their relationship and discuss future collaboration. (click here for more)