A theologically conservative denomination founded as an alternative to the United Methodist Church now has more than 7,000 ...
(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.
Bishop Francis J. McConnells first sermon, as he recalls it, “covered a vast range of lofty religious principles, well up in the air. After having risen so thoroughly to the heights, I decided that ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — ‘You don’t throw away the relationship of your sibling because you do not agree on an issue,’ said a former bishop in the autonomous Methodist Church in Kenya. NAIROBI, Kenya ...
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 ...
For Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey, the last two years have resembled a drawn-out quarrel between members of a very large family: people squabble, agree to disagree, face the consequences and then, ...
A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination during a five-year window, closing this month, that authorized departures for ...
More than 7,500 churches in the United Methodist Church left following disagreements — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — upending financial and statistical landscape of the denomination. Staff at ...
More than 6,180 United Methodist congregations in the U.S. have been granted permission to leave the denomination in a schism that began in 2019 over the role of LGBTQ Methodists in the church and ...
The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...
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 ...
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