There has been a seismic shift within the United Methodist Church after it voted to lift bans on LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriages. The move led some 7,600 conservative Methodist congregations, ...

Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating “Christian teaching” because she had ...

A Methodist pastor has finally been reinstated in the church over 20 years after she was kicked out for being gay. The United Methodist Church defrocked Beth Stroud, 54, in 2004 after she told her ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Methodist pastor from Philadelphia, who was defrocked 20 years ago for being in a same-sex relationship, has been reinstated. Beth Stroud made headlines when she was ousted in ...

Beth Stroud was defrocked in 2004, but less than three weeks after the United Methodist Church repealed its anti-LGBTQ bans, she has been reinstated as pastor. Beth Stroud sheds a tear pondering what ...

Tithe envelops sit in the pews during a Palm Sunday service at First United Methodist Church in Parsons, Tenn., Sunday, April 10, 2022. Trinity Methodist Church located on Wilson Pike in Franklin is ...

An excommunicated Methodist pastor in South Korea has filed a lawsuit to invalidate disciplinary action taken against him for blessing same-sex couples. At a press conference, Pastor Lee Dong-hwan ...

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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 ...

On Sunday, June 25, Batavia United Methodist Church will host a retirement celebration for Pastor Cynthia Anderson at the end of the service. It will be followed by a reception in Batavia United ...

Rev. Sam Clarke is Interim Pastor of Trinity Methodist Church. Trinity Methodist Church located on Wilson Pike in Franklin is one of the oldest congregations in Williamson County, tracing our history ...

A Methodist Connecticut pastor accused of dealing crystal meth out of his church’s parsonage was a no-show at his arraignment last week, leading a judge to re-issue a warrant for his arrest. Herbert ...