The adage if youre looking to split hairs and divide your Methodists is the united Methodists were always more free and the free Methodists more united.

Its a broad tent, most of which didn’t directly mean evangelical when I grew up, but there’s still free Methodists that don’t believe in dancing.

Openly serving gay and lesbian clergy was the hot gossip 20 years ago, it’s been a slow move but they got there.