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Baylor University’s Truett Seminary and Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School are among the six “recommended” seminaries for clergy seeking ordination within the new Methodist body.

Differences over LGBTQ clergy ordination and marriage is separating the United Methodist Church nationwide

The Global Methodist Church started in 2022 as an alternative conservative denomination for departing United Methodists.

The Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church counts about 150,000 members in and around East Tennessee. Now, roughly 1 in 4 of the churches that comprise it are poised to exit the denomination, according to figures from a conference newsletter.

The decision comes as the United Methodist Church continues a dialogue about the denomination’s future, with the central question being the church’s relationship to LGBTQ individuals.

The decision comes as the United Methodist Church continues a dialogue about the denomination’s future, with the central question being the church’s relationship to LGBTQ individuals.

More than 500 churches across Texas are no longer affiliated with the United Methodist denomination. Many of them are in the Houston area. While pastors admit the decision to leave has not been easy, they felt it necessary for moving forward.

Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, sacked and threatened to report theologian Dr. Aaron Edwards for a viral tweet in which he said homosexuality is "invading the church."

(RNS) — Three of the most recent decisions released by the Judicial Council dealt with resolutions that annual and jurisdictional conferences have approved regarding the denomination’s stance on LGBTQ inclusion.

For more than 100 years, two churches affiliated with the United Methodist Church have held Sunday services in the middle of Scottdale. If each stays on its current path, by the end of this summer, Christ United Methodist Church and Trinity United Methodist Church will no longer exist in their