Editing Churches Uniting in Christ (section)

=== Suspension of activities ===
In 2007, the [[African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church]] and the [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] withdrew from CUIC.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Ecumenical Group Limps as Two Churches Cut Ties | magazine = The Christian Century | date = 1 July 2008 | url = http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2008-07/ecumenical-group-limps-two-churches-cut-ties | access-date = 12 August 2012}}</ref> Neither body sent representatives to the CUIC plenary on January 11–14, 2008, though the AME Council of Bishops never voted to suspend membership officially.<ref name="eif-pcusa2008">{{cite web | last = Webb| first = Suzanne| title = Letter from the President of CUIC | publisher = United Methodist News Service | year = 2008 | url = http://eif-pcusa.org/EcumenicalRelations/documents/cuicstatusltr.pdf | access-date = 28 August 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2015}}</ref> They felt the other churches were not doing enough to counter the history of racial injustice between black and white churches. In response to this, the remaining churches in CUIC decided in 2008 to suspend their work while they seek reconciliation with these churches.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bloom |first=Linda |title=Churches Uniting in Christ Seeks Reconciliation |publisher=United Methodist News Service |date=18 January 2008 |url=http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=6245761&ct=4960311 |access-date=15 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610152407/http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=6245761&ct=4960311 |archive-date=10 June 2011 }}</ref> This work began with a group of representatives who revisited the 1999 document "Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism," which is available on the current CUIC website.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.churchesunitinginchrist.org/what-you-can-do/combating-racism/20-call-to-combat-racism-cocu |title=Call to Combat Racism (COCU) - Churches Uniting in Christ<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2012-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160457/http://www.churchesunitinginchrist.org/what-you-can-do/combating-racism/20-call-to-combat-racism-cocu |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This also meant eliminating the position of Director as well as the suspension of the work of the CUIC task forces.<ref name="eif-pcusa2008"/> As of 2012, CUIC no longer has physical offices, opting instead for a [[virtual office]] and storing the archives of both CUIC and COCU at Princeton Seminary's Henry Luce III Library.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ptsem.edu/library/collections/special/archives/ |title=Princeton Theological Seminary Library<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2012-09-20 |archive-date=2012-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025194108/http://ptsem.edu/library/collections/special/archives/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>