Three United Methodist churches in Franklin County have chosen to split with their denomination amidst a nationwide schism over sexuality and theology. The last disaffiliation was finalized during the ...

In 2001, representatives of the Confessing and the Good News movements and representatives of the Reconciling Ministries Network and the Clergy Alliance for a Professing Church came to DePauw ...

Webinars are to educate rank-and-file United Methodists about denomination’s new direction and prepare participants for a leadership event ...

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations—a fifth of the U.S. total—have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s ...

The Rev. Becky Weamer, pastor at Union Avenue United Methodist Church in Alliance, welcomed the Rev. Dawn Beamish as the ...

Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church that in 2017 received $806,763 from the denomination to train future ordinands. The ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

United Methodist Church is splintering. A new, more conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church, launched in May. Seminaries who educate future UMC clergy pride themselves on tradition of ...

The United Methodist Church is withholding funds from two of its seminaries until they submit updated financial reports, and one campus—Claremont School of Theology in southern California—will also ...

COMMENT. ALL RIGHT. LET’S TAKE A LIVE LOOK NOW AT CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN FAYETTEVILLE. IT’S THE STATE’S LARGEST METHODIST CONGREGATION, BUT IT’S NOW PLANNED TO SPLIT INTO THREE. THIS COMES ...