Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three United Methodist churches in Franklin County have chosen to split with their denomination amidst a nationwide schism over ...

In 2001, representatives of the Confessing and the Good News movements and representatives of the Reconciling Ministries Network and the Clergy Alliance for a Professing Church came to DePauw ...

Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church that in 2017 received $806,763 from the denomination to train future ordinands. The ...

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 nation’s ...

United Methodist theological colleges in East Africa now can deliver education at a distance. A new United Methodist e-Academy was launched in December in Kenya after a week of training for leaders of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — The United Methodist Church, a mainstay of the American religious landscape, has cut ties with 58 churches ...

Historic decisions continue to be made from local to national levels within the United Methodist Church, a denomination facing division as some churches vote to disaffiliate over theological and ...

Professors Ashley Dreff and Thomas Grinter of Hood Theological Seminary have been accepted to the 14th Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. The institute will be Aug. 12-19 at Pembroke ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

United Methodist Church is splintering. A new, more conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church, launched in May. Seminaries who educate future UMC clergy pride themselves on tradition of ...

The United Methodist Church is splintering as a new, more conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church, launched in May. Some churches are joining the new denomination and leaving the UMC. A ...