The church has long delayed an anticipated split over LGBTQ issues — until now. It’s not going to be easy. As some in North Carolina look to disaffiliate from UMC for more conservative theology, ...

This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...

During the Mississippi United Methodist Conference recently held in Tupelo, 189 churches statewide disaffiliated from the UMC members because of what local ministers described as differing religious ...

Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

When a publishing company in the cradle of Methodism needed an editor to compile a new book on Methodist studies, it chose a historian with roots in one of the tradition's American cradles. The Rev.

Anthony Elia/Special contributor This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Get weekly roundups of the project in your email inbox by signing up for the ...

Kenneth Rowe, a historian who was known as the leading United Methodist bibliographer, died on October 8. He was 84. “He completely reshaped how we understand the narrative of Methodism in America, ...

Hymnals and Bibles sit in pews during a service at Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown [email protected] The clash United ...