LUBBOCK — For the first time, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered Friday and Saturday as Global Methodists, ushering in a new era for Methodism in the ...

Edgehill United Methodist Church in Nashville embraced LGBTQ+ people, mobilizing its members to help build a national movement in the denomination. “Our mission at that point was to say, ‘How do we ...

In the founding of the Methodist movement in 18th-century England, Charles Wesley is usually regarded as “second fiddle” to his older brother, evangelist John Wesley, according to a local church ...

For as long as he’s worshipped in the United Methodist Church, the Rev. Justin White has felt a calling to serve the church by helping the church serve the world. White, a pastor at Brownsville United ...

It’s Easter morning and I’m driving home from the sunrise service at The Fields Church in Carlsbad and listening to NPR’s Weekend Edition because it’s early and the voices on NPR are so soothing, when ...

A gay pride rainbow flag flies along with the U.S. flag in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan. In late April, the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A growing number of Methodist congregations, including one of Montgomery’s largest churches, is moving forward with their own plans to step away from the United Methodist ...

(RNS) — McClain was a pastor and professor who not only shaped the lives of the students he taught but also countless United Methodists with the creation of the groundbreaking hymnal 'Songs of Zion' ...

To a fanfare of trumpets, 99 bishops —90 representing the Methodist Church and nine from the Evangelical United Brethren—paraded into Dallas’ Memorial Auditorium, followed by acolytes and delegates ...

The leaders of Arkansas' Episcopal and United Methodist churches will observe World Communion jointly on Sunday during a morning worship service at First United Methodist Church in Maumelle. The ...

UMC General Conference, the denomination's international legislative assembly which meets every four years, will gather in Charlotte in April. Its agenda includes decisions on anti-LGBTQ policies.