The Texas Supreme Court ruled June 27, 2025, that the United Methodist Church can sue Southern Methodist University to enforce more control over the school, which the church founded in 1911.

Bishop Scott Jones speaks during an oral hearing before the United Methodist Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court, on May 22, 2018, in Evanston, Illinois. Photo by Kathleen Barry/UMNS ...

For that groundbreaking day, the Elgin Methodist Church pastor, Lavern Johnson, rode a horse to the new church, a distance of 2 to 3 miles, re-enacting the old "circuit ridin’ preacher ...

Asked whether the Global Methodist Church planned to launch any educational institutions of its own or attract United Methodist schools to join alongside clergy and congregations disaffiliating ...