(RNS) — The thinning of the UMC’s conservative ranks makes this week’s conference a perfect time to address the issue. They have also passed a number of petitions on social issues, including one ...

(The Conversation) — The United Methodist Church will hold its General Conference, delayed several years by the pandemic, in April 2024. The meeting comes amid a dramatic divide over LGBTQ+ rights.

The proposed union of four major American Protestant churches is a cart with four wheels—and one of the wheels is slow to turn. The Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and the United Church of Christ ...

Kneeling in a little chapel in Aldersgate Street, London, a moody Anglican clergyman felt his heart “strangely warmed” by a feeling that through Jesus Christ he had been saved. The warming of John ...

On Wednesday nights a handful of worshippers gather at the white-steepled church on Lafayette Street for a fellowship supper. Most of the congregants are elderly, a faithful remnant who have weathered ...

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted to remain opposed to homosexuality. U.S. mainline denominations are all deeply divided on gay issues. In 2003, the U.S. Episcopal Church ...

The trial pitting the United Methodist Church against one of its former member churches resumes today in Houston County, as ...

Apr. 8—The Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church filed a lawsuit against five former members of the Cortez United Methodist Church, alleging they improperly transformed the parish into ...

Case could set precedent for over 40 churches seeking to disaffiliate from United Methodist denomination amid theological ...

The biggest issue is financial, with the two sides unable to reach a settlement on what Harvest should pay for disaffiliating ...