CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — `United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed ... two days after they repealed the denomination's ban on LGBTQ clergy. It’s the UMC’s first legislative gathering ...
On May 1, delegates at the United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted to repeal a ban on LGBTQ clergy that stood for four decades. The 1984 ban, which forbade “self-avowed practicing ...
They were celebrating after the General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to ... after they repealed the denomination’s ban on LGBTQ clergy. It’s the UMC’s first legislative ...
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — On the same day that United Methodist delegates voted to repeal their denomination ... A day earlier it also dropped a ban on the ordination of gay clergy.
Recent developments within the United Methodist Church have ... the church voted decisively to repeal a long-standing ban on LGBTQ clergy, signaling a major shift in its policies regarding sexual ...
Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop ... solely between a man and a woman, and a repeal of its ban on LGBTQ clergy. The General Conference also struck ...
The United Methodist Church is on track to shed roughly 12% of its membership this week when the Eglise Methodiste Unie Cote ...
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s ban on LGBTQ clergy on Wednesday ... Lead Pastor Jennie Edwards Bertrand. The vote to repeal the ban was 692 to 51 at their general conference ...
Related: North Texans react to United Methodist Church vote lifting ban on LGBTQ clergy As part of his training, Reindel is working as a ministry associate at First United Methodist Church in ...
Many held more conservative theological views and largely left over LGBTQ-related policies. Jan Nelson is a member of the Morningside United Methodist ... rid of the ban on gay clergy, for example ...
The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...
separately voted to rescind the ban on ordaining LGBTQ clergy, which dated to 1984. The United Methodist Church, one of the world’s largest Protestant denominations with an estimated 5.4 million ...