Jim in Virginia is distraught over the “HANDBOOK FOR LOCAL CHURCHES”  that the “Back to In-Person Work Group of the Virginia Conference” of the United Methodist Church has released. I didn’t have to wade very far through its 79 nauseating pages to discover why: on page 3, after invocations of the “federal, state, and local authorities, including, but not limited to, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (‘HHS’)…, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (‘CDC’) …, the Virginia Department of Health (‘VDH’) …., and the discretion of leadership for the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist … Continue reading There’s A Madness to This Methodism