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UMC Wednesday updates: United Methodists remove ban on LGBTQ+ clergy
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoDisaffiliations — there were ultimately 7,500-plus U.S. congregations that left the denomination...
North Texans react to United Methodist Church vote lifting ban on LGBTQ clergy
Dallas Morning News· 3 days agoDelegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference in Charlotte, N.C. It is the first such...
North Texans react to United Methodist Church policy changes on marriage, homosexuality
Dallas Morning News· 8 hours agoUnited Methodists in North Texas reacted with excitement, joy and some sadness after their church...
Western Pa. United Methodist churches react to denomination's revised LGBTQ policies
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 3 days agoThe Rev. Hannah Loughman, pastor at Sewickley United Methodist Church, found herself crying tears of...
Year after 100+ SC churches left United Methodists, slimmer church changes LGBTQ+ policy
The State via Yahoo News· 3 days agoInternal differences on same-sex relations led some to walk out of the denomination. But the...
United Methodist Church lifts 40-year ban on LGBTQ clergy – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 4 days agoThe church has long been divided into factions over LGBTQ inclusion and even weighed splitting into...
United Methodist Church Votes To Allow LGBTQ+ Clergy—Amid Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Efforts
Forbes· 4 days agoThe United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from...
Tears and Songs of Praise as the United Methodist Church Reverses Decades-Old Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
them via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAP Photo/Chris Carlson In a series of landmark votes this week, the United Methodist Church (UMC)...
What Might Come of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference? | Opinion
The Wichita Eagle· 7 days agoThen, between 2019 and 2023, the church split, largely due to disputes over its teachings on gender and sexuality. Leaders of the United Methodist Church ...
United Methodist Church delegates vote to end anti-LGBTQ policies after decades
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMethodists had intense debates over the issue at past conferences. But after a split in the church,...