(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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted to remain opposed to homosexuality. U.S. mainline denominations are all deeply divided on gay issues. In 2003, the U.S. Episcopal Church ...

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 ...

The United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly, the UMC General Conference, is gathering in Charlotte until Friday, May 3. Removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions is among the top issues facing the ...

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 ...

More than 20 church property lawsuits against the United Methodist Church that were still in the Alabama court system as 2025 comes to a close will drag into 2026. Harvest Church of Dothan sued the ...