CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — `United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Beth Stroud sheds a tear pondering what reinstatement would mean 20 ...
On a spring night in 2017, Aaron Reindel sought comfort at a statue of Jesus washing the feet of his disciple Peter. Reindel was studying at Dallas Theological Seminary to become a pastor and had ...
Since 1972, the United Methodist Church considered homosexuality to be “incompatible with Christian teaching." That language ...
United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, ...
Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a ...
A lesbian United Methodist minister defrocked 20 years ago after saying she was in a “committed relationship with another ...
Beth Stroud said her "whole life would have been different" had she not been removed from her position in the church.
UMC delegates repealed a ban on ordaining and appointing LGBTQ clergy on May 1 following years of contentious discussions at ...
LOCAL COUPLE AND THE CHURCH. IT’S BEEN AMAZING, AND I WOULDN’T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. KIM AND DEBRA CAVALLARO KELLER HAVE ...
The changes immediately open new doors for LGBTQ members — but over a quarter of U.S. congregations have already left the UMC ...
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church ...