Three United Methodist churches in Franklin County have chosen to split with their denomination amidst a nationwide schism over sexuality and theology. The last disaffiliation was finalized during the ...

In 2001, representatives of the Confessing and the Good News movements and representatives of the Reconciling Ministries Network and the Clergy Alliance for a Professing Church came to DePauw ...

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations—a fifth of the U.S. total—have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s ...

United Methodist theological colleges in East Africa now can deliver education at a distance. A new United Methodist e-Academy was launched in December in Kenya after a week of training for leaders of ...

Whether Errickson’s guidelines can be tailored to mesh with United Methodist theology is a different question. Darryl Stephens, director of United Methodist Studies at Lancaster Theological Seminary, ...

United Methodist Church is splintering. A new, more conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church, launched in May. Seminaries who educate future UMC clergy pride themselves on tradition of ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — After finally accepting her call to preach, Spencer Cullom took a step of faith and began the yearslong process to become ordained in the United Methodist Church. She believed God ...

Feb. 13—Dick Williamson worshiped for decades as a United Methodist Church member, but recent years had put a bad taste in his mouth. The denomination was "going more and more progressive, and that is ...