Hundreds of United Methodist pastors have signed a proposal aimed at avoiding a schism over homosexuality in a denomination that has, until recently, largely sat out the gay equality movement. The ...

As the United Methodist Church has spent decades debating the place of LGBTQ Christians in its ministries, the Rev. Adam Hamilton has emerged as “the Pied Piper for Methodists in the middle.” At the ...

ONE OF AMERICA’S largest Protestant denominations voted in May to prohibit the solemnization of same-sex unions in its churches, to withhold ordination from practicing homosexuals, to ban church ...

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ+ people in the ...

(RNS) Decades ago it never occurred to me nor to many evangelicals in United Methodism that our church's membership decline and theological liberalism in America would be reversed by dramatic growth ...

Birthplace of Methodism in the U. S. was Savannah, Ga., where John Wesley preached and Charles Wesley sang hymns in their first U. S. meeting (1736). To see relics and memorials of the Brothers Wesley ...

There’s broad support for a new plan to allow traditional marriage proponents to leave the UMC with $25 million in funding. Factions in the United Methodist Church (UMC) have reached an initial ...

United Methodist Church is experiencing a schism Though LGBTQ rights is part of the debate, it's not the only disagreement, United Methodists say At the center of debate is beliefs about the Bible and ...

I am a retired pastor of the deeply broken United Methodist Church, so the Rev. Dr. Marvin A. McMickle’s Feb. 27 Forum piece (”A missed chance at racial unity”) called to mind the Methodist ...

Two years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 ...

(RNS) — “Let our people go!” reads a statement shared over the weekend by the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a network of theologically conservative United Methodists. While the phrase might be ...