CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop Jimmy Nunn speaks to delegates at an October 2023 special called conference of the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference at ...

Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference. It's a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held ...

Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference. It’s a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held ...

(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 ...

In 1766 Philip Embury and a handful of John Wesley’s disciples organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than ...

Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference. It’s a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held ...

On the other side of disaffiliation, traditionalist congregations pursue prayer, revival, and revitalization. June Fulton felt weird sitting in the third pew. At every service since she joined the ...

After decades of internal strife over LGBTQ issues, delaying their General Conference, and giving local churches an escape route to disaffiliate, the Methodist conference voted pro-LGBTQ earlier this ...

Compiling a hymnal for his fellow Methodists in 1761, John Wesley admonished them to “sing lustily,” keeping always “an eye to God in every word you sing.” True to his urging, Methodists have always ...