{"id":2991,"date":"2022-03-31T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/secretary\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:43:28","slug":"church-court-evaluates-bishops-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/secretary\/2022\/03\/church-court-evaluates-bishops-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Court Evaluates Bishops&#8217; Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the 2021 Annual Conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/Russell-Decision-of-Law-2021-Text.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/Russell-Decision-of-Law-2021-Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timothy Russell asked for a Bishop\u2019s ruling<\/a> on whether the standing rules of order for the 2021 Annual Conference had been properly approved since members were asked to approve them in advance without privilege to discuss, amend, or debate. Bishop Ward\u2019s ruling was that the standing rules of order were properly approved. The question was sent to the Judicial Council which <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umnews.org\/en\/news\/church-court-evaluates-bishops-decisions\" target=\"_blank\">rendered a ruling on March 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2021 Annual Conference, Timothy Russell asked for a Bishop\u2019s ruling on whether the standing rules of order for the 2021 Annual Conference had been properly approved since members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,158,10],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-annual-conference","tag-conference-secretarys-office","tag-effective-leaders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Church Court Evaluates Bishops&#039; 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