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In a lawsuit filed April 14 with the state Supreme Court, 11 former United Methodist churches are asking a judge to decide how much control the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist ...
Some of those leave victims unable to properly care for themselves, and some think auto insurance isn ... This morning, members of the united methodist church met with state legislators to ...
Three United Methodists were killed in clashes between members of the United Methodist Church of Nigeria and the conservative breakaway Global Methodist Church in Munga Dosso, Taraba State. The ...
Joaquin United Methodist Church, located on Faulkville Road, will be seized and surrendered to the United Methodist Church denomination at the end of this week due to the congregation disassociating ...
Laura Bullard is the senior researcher for Today, Explained, where she has been footnoting and mercilessly splitting hairs since 2021. Last week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC ...
Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.
It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news conference about the ...
A sign that reads, “All Are Welcome!,” is seen in front of Kessler Park United Methodist Church on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Dallas.(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) United Methodists in ...
"I'm glad this has finally been resolved," said Blain, a heterosexual lifelong UMC member that attends the St. Paul's United Methodist on Main Street in Houston's Museum District. "Some of my ...
Jane Graner, an out gay woman and senior pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Duncanville, was also at the vote. “Several of the queer clergy were sitting together, and when we saw the ...
The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...
The United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from serving in the church’s clergy—the latest measure in an ongoing effort to revisit the church’s ...