(RNS) — As the United Methodist Church has spent decades wrestling over the inclusion of its LGBTQ members, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of the largest United Methodist church in the United States, ...

(RNS) — It was the thing that was supposed to save the United Methodist Church. The Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation, brokered by 16 United Methodist bishops and advocacy group ...

The worldwide Anglican Communion heads toward a schism as United Methodists embark on a restructuring plan putting ...

United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically widespread of the major Protestant denominations, their steeples visible on ...

As the United Methodist Church has spent decades debating the place of LGBTQ Christians in its ministries, the Rev. Adam Hamilton has emerged as “the Pied Piper for Methodists in the middle.” At the ...

ONE OF AMERICA’S largest Protestant denominations voted in May to prohibit the solemnization of same-sex unions in its churches, to withhold ordination from practicing homosexuals, to ban church ...

United Methodist Church is experiencing a schism Though LGBTQ rights is part of the debate, it's not the only disagreement, United Methodists say At the center of debate is beliefs about the Bible and ...

There’s broad support for a new plan to allow traditional marriage proponents to leave the UMC with $25 million in funding. Factions in the United Methodist Church (UMC) have reached an initial ...

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 ...

Pastors are acquainted with grief, and officiating at funerals is one of their duties. But some local Methodist pastors say the loss they’re experiencing now is more painful. They believe they are ...

There are people in the pews, dollars in the collection plates, and 65 million Americans who claim to be Protestants. But the outwardly prosperous Christian churches are beset with inner anxiety.

” I am not a Bolshevist and I am not a reactionary, thank God! I am a little of both.” Such was the defense and the argument of the Rt. Rev. Edgar Blake, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, ...