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A Methodist Connecticut pastor has been accused of dealing crystal meth out of his church’s parsonage, police said. Herbert Miller, 63, the reverend of Woodbury United Methodist Church, was ...
A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender ...
The changes immediately open new doors for LGBTQ members — but over a quarter of U.S. congregations have already left the UMC, and more could follow.
The Rev. Carlos Ramirez, the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference's director of communications and strategy, said a district superintendent who visited with Waurika United Methodist Church members ...
The church’s pastor, Andy Oliver, posted a video to Facebook on June 17 that showed a confrontation with police officers in the parking lot, where he asked them if he could help them.
In the last four years, more than 7,600 congregations across the U.S. have received approval to leave the United Methodist Church. Nearly three-quarters of those exits occurred this year.
PROSPECT OF FAIR WEATHER Appointments at the Approaching Methodist Conferences -- Many Changes Expected -- A New Lutheran Church. Share full article April 6, 1901 ...
The Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. The school, which was founded by Methodists more than a century ago, is trying to extricate itself from the United Methodist Church.
The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...
The United Methodist Church marked a new era of LGBTQ inclusion by voting to lift the bans on LGBTQ clergy and on pastors performing same-sex unions. They also removed the language that said ...
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 ...
My conflict with Methodist church has become an act of faith. Remaining in the church for me was never a serious question. On the one hand there was this difference over a divisive issue.