S1E10 - Tradition and Nuance with Stephen Rankin

“Those are the labels that are gonna be put on me…I will live with them, and I am just praying all the time that they don’t squelch conversation.”

Welcome to Bar of the Conference. Stephen Rankin is a lifelong United Methodist and retired clergy in the Great Plains Annual Conference. He’s spent most of his ministry serving college students and in higher education. In this episode, we talk about his journey of faith and ministry, the labels we use and how someone with conservative commitments can stay in the UMC. This deep and substantive conversation will be helpful for United Methodists across the theological spectrum.