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UMC Wednesday updates: United Methodists remove ban on LGBTQ+ clergy
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe most high-profile of those proposals facing the UMC General Conference in Charlotte deal with...
‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe United Methodist Church marked a new era of LGBTQ inclusion by voting to lift the bans on LGBTQ...
United Methodists took historic steps toward inclusion but ‘big tent’ work has just begun
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Days before their denomination dismantled decades of policies limiting the role of...
Religious views on abortion more diverse than they may appear in U.S. political debate
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 30 minutes agoA recent report shows that Americans of various faiths and denominations believe abortion should be...
Houston UMC pastor apologizes to Methodists hurt by anti-gay bans
Houston Chronicle· 13 hours agoThe Rev. Dr. Jeff McDonald knows that some congregants at St. Paul's United Methodist Church off...
Year after 100+ SC churches left United Methodists, slimmer church changes LGBTQ+ policy
The State via Yahoo News· 5 days agoInternal differences on same-sex relations led some to walk out of the denomination. But the...
United Methodists, at major conference, repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy
WCAX-TV Vermont· 6 days agoPast General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban and related...
United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues
WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke· 5 days agoMethodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social...
Opinion | Why United Methodists’ historic vote means so much to gay Christians like me
MSNBC· 6 days agoThe denomination also adopted another policy barring clergy or churches that celebrate same-sex...
Police warn of people scrubbing $1 bills, turning them into $100
KHON 2 Honolulu· 7 hours agoHILO (KHON2) – An alert from police has surfaces as people are taking low denomination U.S. bills...