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United Methodist “Bishop” justified Illegal Immigration with the Bible?

United Methodism two years after 25% of churches disaffiliated

The United Methodist Church’s experience with the disaffiliations of a number of its congregations has received widespread coverage in church media and in some secular media outlet...

UMC is Pro-Death! Methodist Pastor encourages Abortion from the pulpit

Methodist-Episcopal dialogue heads to full-communion vote in 2027 at General Convention

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church is moving closer to finalizing a full-communion agreement with the United Methodist Church, and that could create new opportunities fo...

United Methodists denounce Trump’s Easter threats

United Methodists this week joined a growing chorus of faith and civic leaders denouncing President Donald Trump’s threats against Iran posted on social media. On Easter Sunday, Tr...

United Methodist leaders speak out on voting rights decision

United Methodist bishops, social justice leaders and a racial-ethnic caucus have spoken out against the April 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act. I...

Remaking the UMC brings ‘aura of hope’

When The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968, eminent theologian Albert C. Outler preached an opening sermon in which he extolled “an aura of hope” for the new denomination...

Here’s what’s different about clergy sexual abuse claims in UMC

One of the most consequential rulings on clergy sexual abuse in the entire history of American jurisprudence has received virtually no media attention. Its defendant? The United Me...

UMC Pastor Adam Hamilton is BUSTED!

2une In Previews: Historic church celebrates 160 years with Founder's Day events

BATON ROUGE - Wesley United Methodist Church is marking 160 years of serving the Capital area with a Founders' Day celebration.The Founders' Day Service is May 24 at 10 a.m. at 544...

Democracy’s decline tests new United Methodist Church

No United Methodist who knows anything about the denomination’s history can feel anything but profound sadness at what’s happening to the American democratic republic. Good and bad...

Adam Hamilton will run for US Senate as a Democrat

United Methodist Pastor Adam Hamilton announced April 30 he will run for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. The founding pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., took the...

How homosexuality has torn apart the United Methodist Church

by Damian Thompson, Spectator The United Methodist Church has experienced a sharp decline over the past century, from an estimated 11 million members in the 1950s to around 4 milli...