As Adopted by General Conference, Charlotte

The 2025 - 2028 United Methodist Social Principles

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  • Text Reads: BOOK STUDY COHORT FALL 2026
PAGES FOR PROGRESS
A book-to-action series for education and action featuring:
Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in
America

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    Book Study on Voting Rights: Join Church and Society's Pages for Progress

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  • Text reads: RESOURCES
SACRED VOTING
ACTIVATION
2026 U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS

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    Sacred Voting Activation: Resources for the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections

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    Where the Hope Comes From

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    One Body: Beyond the Physical Walls

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  • The graphic shows a cropped image of Liberato Bautista, a Filipino man in his 60s with short black hair, in a gray suit and light blue shirt.

Present Tense—Edition #6

The text reads: THE PRESENT
TENSE
present tense noun
the verb tense expressing action or state in the current moment

Rev. Dr. Liberato (Levi) Bautista

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    Dialogue in the Present Tense: The Wider Circle of Belonging

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  • Text reads "Living Faith with the Social Principles" on purple background with GBCS brandwall that reads "faith justice peace"

    Living Faith with the Social Principles: Equipping Young People for Reflection and Action

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