Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of Global Methodist Church clergy and laypeople from across West Texas gather for the first-ever West Plains Provisional ...

BRIDGETON — Several United Methodist churches in South Jersey who disagree with new, progressive policies on same-sex marriages and gay clergy say the state conference is making it too difficult to ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Sexuality won’t be on the agenda when members of the nascent Global Methodist Church convene for the first time Sept. 20-26 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The breakaway denomination established by ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church convened in a special session today to decide on a crucial matter: whether to grant permission to an additional 95 Methodist ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.