Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Mark Hipps-Figgs offers a prayer request during a service of Elizabeth Street United ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham writes about faith and religion, and visited a Methodist church in ...

From the pulpit, Aaron Tiger opened his Bible to the book of Philippians and surveyed his new flock. During a year-end Sunday service at Christ Church on Harvard in Tulsa, Christmas trees lined the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Editor’s note: This writer’s op-ed was prompted by “Un-United Methodists: Church ...