Odell Horne, Jr.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results that it does – W. Edwards Deming This year, delegates from all United Methodist Church (UMC) Annual Conferences will be voting on four constitutional amendments that were passed at last year’s General Conference, but need to be ratified. One of the amendments, Worldwide Regionalization, has been […]

How White Anglo-Saxon Protestants used a trick of colonialism to prevent Africans from taking over control of the United Methodist Church Last year, 862 delegates from around the world came to Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2020/24 United Methodist Church’s General Conference from April 23rd – May 3rd. Some of the countries that were represented

In 2019 I was elected to be a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s 2020 General Conference, representing the laity of the North Georgia Conference. However, due to the coronavirus, the General Conference was rescheduled to August 2021. And then, because of the ongoing pandemic, it was pushed to August 2022, and eventually until April

By Odell Horne, Jr. In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court that equal, but separate railroad cars for black and white citizens were legal within the state. This case was known as Plessy vs. Ferguson, and it added to a growing wave of segregation laws in the U.S.