CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” ...
As a young seminary student at Emory University in 1972, Larry Rankin heeded a professor’s suggestion to attend the General ...
Since 1972, the United Methodist Church considered homosexuality to be “incompatible with Christian teaching." That language ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Beth Stroud sheds a tear pondering what reinstatement would mean 20 ...
The United Methodist Church is on track to shed roughly 12% of its membership this week when the Eglise Methodiste Unie Cote ...
The United Methodist Church voted to overturn its 40-year ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as its ban on celebrating same-sex ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church ...
There has been a seismic shift within the United Methodist Church after it voted to lift bans on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex ...
UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a ...
The OKC meeting of the Oklahoma United Methodists will be the first annual meeting after season of disaffiliations, removal ...
LOCAL COUPLE AND THE CHURCH. IT’S BEEN AMAZING, AND I WOULDN’T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. KIM AND DEBRA CAVALLARO KELLER HAVE ...