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Because some churches are performing marriages for all parishioners and allowing LGBTQ+ people to serve as clergy members, one church is discussing leaving the conference.
Churches that support LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage would remain Methodist, while those opposed would form a new denomination.
An official church body in the state has rejected the idea of an apology, but some Methodists are going ahead with their own.
The church's Judicial Council OK'd the retention of bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages.
While seeking to make faith communities LGBTQ-inclusive, we must also confront racism, misogyny, and other oppressive ideologies, writes Rev. M Barclay.
Andrew Ponder, active in the church since he was 14, on how the Methodist rejection of LGBTQ people stung him.
After the denomination's leadership embraced bigotry, LGBTQ Methodists find themselves at a crossroads.
Church leaders return from a conference with apologies, frustrations to air in 'more exclusionary' denomination.
Delegates at a conference turned down another opportunity to include LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriages.
The demonination appears on the brink of a schism.
The church refused to clean up the vandal's words and instead framed them with love.
More than 600 of Sessions's fellow United Methodists have signed a complaint accusing the attorney general of violating church law.
Bishops recommend that the church allow individual clergy members and regional bodies to decide on these policies.
The Judicial Council's ruling on the United Methodist Church's first lesbian bishop highlights the church's division on LGBT issues.
Some activists feel hopeful in light of a decision to set up a special commission to study issues of sexuality.
The story of a Georgia choir director is a timely reminder of what's at stake at the United Methodist Church's General Conference, happening now.
More than 100 clergy members have come out in a challenge to the church's anti-LGBT policies.
A Methodist minister is sleeping outdoors in Michigan's bitter cold in a demonstration against his church elders' stance on LGBT people.
As the United Methodist Church prepares to debate whether to accept LGBT clergy and same-sex unions, a minister discloses her relationship with a woman.
After Trevor Harper surprised his boyfriend with a marriage proposal at church, the congregation did something you likely wouldn't expect.
