Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It's about time." That thought bubbled to the surface on Wednesday when the Rev. Valerie Steele, of Oklahoma City, learned that ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of ‘self-avowed practicing homosexuals’ — a prohibition that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a matter of days, Ohio pastor Angie Cox and her wife went from contemplating moving to a more permissive region of the United ...

There were tears, hugs, prayer and singing in Charlotte after the United Methodist Church removed a line prohibiting the ordination of LGBTQ clergy that had been in place since 1984. According to ...

The United Methodist Church voted Wednesday to cast off decades-old restrictions on the ordination of LGBTQ individuals as ministers while effectively allowing overseas church regions to ignore the ...

The United Methodist General Conference on Wednesday morning repealed its longstanding ban on ordaining openly gay and lesbian clergy. The change happened quietly and without controversy through a ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on Tuesday – voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies.Related video above from 2023: ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years -- one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting ...

That thought bubbled to the surface on Wednesday when the Rev. Valerie Steele, of Oklahoma City, learned that her long-held hope had been realized: the United Methodist Church overturned a 40-year ban ...

There were tears, hugs, prayer and singing in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the United Methodist Church removed a line prohibiting the ordination of LGBTQ clergy that had been in place since 1984.

Following splintering in United Methodist Church, denomination's top legislative assembly approved historic changes in early May toward LGBTQ+ inclusion and to restructure denomination. In response to ...