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I long for the United Methodist Church to make the same kind of difference in lives of people today that it has for me over the past 50 years.

Will drag queens in the pulpit become "mainstream" in the United Methodist Church?

Will drag queens in the pulpit become "mainstream" in the United Methodist Church?

Why do liberals in the United States want Africa to remain United Methodist if the Africans profoundly oppose the liberals’ chief ecclesial agenda of full sexual liberalization?

United Methodist Bishop Gary Mueller, who oversees the denominations churches in Arkansas, will request permission to retire, effective Jan. 1, he announced last week.

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.

Clergy who used their office to mock traditionalists with “dreams” or signs about sandwiches likely won’t draw many smiles of approval.

(RNS) — In his first presidential address as president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, Bishop Thomas Bickerton called on conservative groups encouraging churches to leave the denomination to stop the negative rhetoric.

Americans care less and less about denominations. Old multigenerational loyalties to denominations are largely over. Church goers now expect churches to earn their loyalty. Exiting dying United Methodism will empower congregations to meet this expectation.

Americans care less and less about denominations. Old multigenerational loyalties to denominations are largely over. Church goers now expect churches to earn their loyalty. Exiting dying United Methodism will empower congregations to meet this expectation.