<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This article may be of interest to those of you who retain a residual interest in United Methodism, as I do on occasion.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">For those interested in the power dynamics recently in play, I even went so far as to pen an extended commentary on the article (written by a Lutheran lawyer who may have a historical perspective, but who is definitely not a Methodist 'insider'). It's at the bottom of the web page.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Update: retired Bishop Talbert has just been formally charged in the Western Jurisdiction today.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Marshall</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/7678/methodists_make_history__or__an_argument_for_ecclesiastical_disobedience/</font><br></div></div></body></html>