Methodists

“We want to surround that message of hate with a message of love, and that’s what we’ve received since.”

Cuba’s proposed new constitution defines marriage as “the consensual union of two people, regardless of gender.”

This clergy member feels a calling to be a “visibly trans person” ordained by a church that still officially bans LGB clergy.

The presumptive Republican nominee preached to the choir and won a standing ovation from hundreds of conservative Christians.

The Governor sits a few pews away from the lesbian couple who sued to overturn the state’s ban on adoption by same-sex parents.

A Michigan pastor has been sleeping outside in a tent for weeks to protest his denomination’s stance on LGBT people.

Gay clergy and same-sex marriage may soon be allowed at United Methodist Churches under a proposal drafted by the Connectional Table, a respected international body of clergy members and lay people in the church.

A church statement says the case against retired Bishop Melvin G. Talbert is ending with a settlement that the denomination calls a “just resolution.”

The church made national headlines in January when as much as eighty percent of the congregants left after a popular gay choir director was forced to resign.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Methodist pastor who was disciplined after he officiated at the wedding of his gay son will be allowed to remain an ordained minister. The Judicial Council of the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania church jury was wrong to defrock Frank Schaefer last year after he would not…