Under the new restructuring plan, called 'regionalization,' the denomination's nine regions will be equal partners with ...

Plan to give regional autonomy to United Methodists outside U.S. passes, a historic win following splintering sparked by ...

Results from a worldwide vote in the United Methodists Church to empower regions outside the U.S. are imminent. How ...

BOTHELL -- The church trial of the Rev. Karen Dammann, a United Methodist minister who is a lesbian, began yesterday with jurors immediately facing the crux of the issue: either Dammann clearly broke ...

The Rev. Robert Gibbs, a retired United Methodist Church administrator, built on his father's legacy as a way of building on another: the development of future Christian ministers at Bethune-Cookman ...

United Methodist churches across the country are undergoing a historic transformation as many — including 19 in Davidson County — have requested to leave the denomination, while other UM churches that ...

The Lebanon County minister suspended for officiating his son's same-sex marriage has been defrocked by the United Methodist Church, but Frank Schaefer said it's a decision he plans to appeal. "I am ...

Fortuna United Methodist Church has a new certified lay minister. Kalesita Fa’asisila – who comes to the North Coast from the Bay Area – replaced the Rev. Amy Durward, who now serves as pastor at the ...

Harold A. Milstead, 92, a United Methodist minister at 10 churches in the Baltimore-Washington area for 58 years, died of a stroke March 23 at his home in Shepherdstown, W.Va. The Rev. Milstead also ...

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