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I don’t know how many people will actually read this post, considering GC ended a few days ago, but I thought that I’d bring some closure to this blog anyway.
General Conference ended Friday night and I have to say that even though I’m glad I will be able to enjoy regular sleeping hours now, I’ll miss it. Overall, it was a great experience. I learned so much about myself, the church and others. I learned that I am called to help bring justice and healing to our broken church. I learned a lot about the UMC these past two weeks, too. I saw the church at its best and at its worst at General Conference.
Overall, General Conference was amazing, awesome, horrible, boring and exciting. There were definitely bad moments; I witnessed ageism, sexism, racism and homophobia while there. But there were also many, many good moments.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned while at General Conference is that the UMC really
does have a future with hope. And I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that I am called to be a part of shaping that hopeful future.
(I don’t intend to blog here much more, since General Conference is officially over. However, I do have another blog which I post at fairly regularly. It’s called “Curt Comments from Kurt” and you can find it here. I write about a wider variety of subjects in that blog, but United Methodist polity and related topics are some of my favorite still!)
