Pastor Martin P. Brooks runs the Street Care Team of the Magothy United Methodist Church which helps the homeless with supplies and a special app to educate the public.

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 its ...

The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...

A contentious, six-year legal battle between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University is coming before the Texas Supreme Court today. The controversy centers around who maintains ...

SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — For many years, the bell ringing in the Chinchilla United Methodist Church steeple signaled the start of worship services. “Our church service used to be at 10 o’clock ...

Elbert Muncie Bishop Jr., age 96, of S. Waterlily Road, Coinjock, NC, died Wednesday, February 24th, 2021, at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. Born in Bath, NC on May 27th, 1924 to the late Elbert… ...

Ruth M. Betts North Carolina - 84, passed away March 22, 2014. She was born December 21, 1929 in Atchison Kansas to the late George F. Molt and Cordelia Sh ...

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 ...

At the United Methodist Church's General Conference, bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages were removed. However, the denomination faces internal strife and declining membership.

House was ordained in the United Methodist Church in the 1980s and has served as a pastor in the North Texas Conference for decades. For much of that time, he kept secret his identity as a gay man.

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 ...