Members of the crowd embrace, rejoicing over the vote. (Corbin Payne photo) The Rev. William Williams III, the Methodists' Meadowlands District superintendent, holds hands with Greater New Jersey ...
The General Convention of the United Methodist Church voted down any new acceptance or equality of its gay and lesbian members. While still the largest mainline Christian denomination in the United ...
(RNS) The United Methodist Church General Conference convenes once every four years to make policy decisions and set the direction for the denomination. Beginning Tuesday (May 10), 864 delegates, half ...
I must confess that I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what our friends in the United Methodist Church were thinking when they introduced resolutions calling for divesting stock in 20 companies ...
The issue of homosexuality is expected to dominate the national meeting of the United Methodist Church, which begins Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Over the next two weeks of deliberations, delegates from ...