CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” ...
Since 1972, the United Methodist Church considered homosexuality to be “incompatible with Christian teaching." That language ...
As a young seminary student at Emory University in 1972, Larry Rankin heeded a professor’s suggestion to attend the General ...
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UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church ...
LOCAL COUPLE AND THE CHURCH. IT’S BEEN AMAZING, AND I WOULDN’T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. KIM AND DEBRA CAVALLARO KELLER HAVE ...