CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” ...
Mark also captures a truth piece we must remember: “… fear is the opposite of faith. The Bible tells us hundreds of times, ...
In 1984, the UMC General Conference approved a law forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being in ministry.
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
Andi Woodworth founded Neighborhood Church as a space of healing for all who feel religion has been used against them.
Beth Stroud said her "whole life would have been different" had she not been removed from her position in the church.
Since 1972, the United Methodist Church considered ... NC the Church’s delegates made major strides to repeal some of its ...
UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia ... The UMC ...
Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, the decades of wrestling over whether to reaffirm or ...