The special Gen­eral Confer­ence of the United Methodist Church in February was more of a pivot point than the finale in the denomination’s long debate about the inclusion of LGBTQ persons in the life ...

In a move that some are calling “defiant,” delegates at the annual meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church last Saturday declared themselves a “One Church Plan ...

(RNS) The United Methodist Church elected and consecrated the Rev. Karen Oliveto as its first openly LGBT bishop in a move the head of its Council of Bishops says 'raises significant concerns and ...

Across the country, clergy members in the United Methodist Church are now being faced with the stark reality that public policy is far more prophetic and just than our current church polity as they ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Cincinnati pastor will face trial by a council of church leaders in Indianapolis on Friday to determine whether his marriage to a man makes him unfit to be a United Methodist ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The April 23, 2016 wedding of John Romano and Jim Wilborne at First United Methodist ...

Over the past decade, I’ve been asked if I have anything to say about the challenges facing the United Methodist Church, both asking me personally and also hoping I might offer some thoughts in this ...

No one knows whether John Wesley might have envisioned the current wave of 84 Oklahoma church disaffiliations occurring in a Methodist denomination, but the theologian's philosophy regarding church ...