What is the UMC Social Creed?
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The United Methodist Book of Discipline contains a social creed at the end of the section on the Social Principles. The Social Creed draws from the Church’s Christian beliefs and Wesleyan practices to express its solidarity with the working class and commitment to fair and just labor practices. Drafted by the Methodist Episcopal Church (a predecessor to The UMC) in 1908 during the height of the American Labor Movement, it is a historic and sacred testament to our social witness as a denomination.

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