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Once the second largest protestant denomination in America, the United Methodist Church lost about a quarter of its members over issues of sexuality. Now, the church is overturning its prohibition on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage.

Even after a wave of church disaffiliations since 2020 over LGBTQ issues, United Methodists face similar questions 4 years later.

In Ohio, almost 600 churches — or around 35% of the total — have disaffiliated since 2019, higher than anywhere else in the Midwest.

Handbook for the Christian Faith by James M. Dawsey, Foreword by John W. Wells, (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023).

Religious views that are perceived to be imposed become unpopular, and the coercion enforcing them becomes ultimately unsustainable.

A pending separation and changing international composition find The United Methodist Church in a time of rethinking what it means to be a church, and a global church at that.

A Baltimore pastor and archivist stumbled on previously unknown writings by Francis Asbury, the "George Washington" of the Methodist Church.

(RNS) — Here is a glimpse of how Methodism spread after Francis Asbury’s arrival, told through the stories of three historic churches across the country.

STEVIE 1 Nacido el Día de los Difuntos y muerto cinco meses antes de su vigésimo noveno cumpleaños, Stephen Crane vivió cinco meses y cinco días en el siglo xx,

New York to Muddy York April 9, 2021 Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson Scott McLaren Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada.University of Toronto Press (purchase at Amazon.ca) When we imagine those settlers to Upper Canada of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, we might imagine them as Susanna Moodie portrayed them in Roughing It in t...