The conference filed a lawsuit in Greenville County in November against the former Simpsonville United Methodist Church, claiming ownership of its buildings through the trust clause created with ...

RICHFIELD — Five generations of Linda Engle’s family worshipped at Richfield United Methodist Church before she and the congregation decided in late December to leave the denomination due to ...

A construction job inside a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church at the Jersey Shore ... commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. “This is extremely and extraordina ...

A memorial service is planned at Harwich United Methodist Church on Saturday March 15th ... school librarian at St. Joseph’s School in Mendham, NJ informed her passion for libraries, leading ...

In November, Padin granted a preliminary injunction in favor of churches receiving taxpayer funding for preservation of historic religious buildings in The Mendham Methodist Church v. Morris ...

In May 2023, Zion Lutheran Church Long Valley and Mendham Methodist Church, represented by religious liberty public interest law firm First Liberty Institute, filed a lawsuit claiming the Morris ...

More: A Mormon temple in NJ? Why the church is eyeing one of America's least Mormon states The Mendham Methodist Church was founded in 1828 and their current building on East Main Street was ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

The United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from serving in the church’s clergy—the latest measure in an ongoing effort to revisit the church’s ...

The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions ...