United Methodist Bishop Jonathan Holston, who was ceremonially installed Sunday night as head of the North Alabama Conference, addressed the controversy over the denomination’s decision earlier this ...

After decades of passionate advocacy, those supporting LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church finally achieved their goals at last year’s general conference. With the advocates’ persistent ...

The United Methodist Church has garnered criticism for a plan to possibly cut funding to the 1-million-member Côte d'Ivoire Conference, which voted to leave the denomination earlier this year before ...

The United Methodist General Conference that ended Friday in Tampa, Fla., was like the Democratic and the Republican national conventions held together, with liberal and conservative groups battling, ...

The Alabama Supreme Court today refused to give a rehearing to a group of breakaway Methodists in Auburn who had sued over ...

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church convened in Tampa last week. I’m not one of the 988 delegates who have descended on Florida to do the work of our church, nor of the 4,000 hosts, ...

Since May 15, two more judges in Conecuh and Houston counties have ruled against motions by the United Methodist denomination to dismiss lawsuits by breakaway Alabama churches that want to keep their ...

For the first time in 91 years, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church convenes in Pensacola, home of "the mother church of Florida Methodism." The group will gather to ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — There is no shortage of impressive buildings dotting Capitol Hill: the U.S. Capitol with its shining dome, the Library of Congress topped by a golden flame, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Lyle Muller is a retired, long-time Iowa journalist who is researching United Methodist history in Iowa and North Liberty. He is a delegate to the denomination’s Iowa Annual Conference. I needed to ...