“I don’t have that kind of advice,” Jones said. “When they’re still part of the United Methodist Church, I try not to meddle with their disaffiliation process, but what I do say ...

Jones and Bishop Mark Webb, who left the United Methodist Church just before him ... Any amount helps, and because we're a nonprofit, all of it goes to support our mission: To produce thoughtful ...

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Not us," he says. "So when we say we're the church, we're referring to our Lord and not ourselves." The United Methodist congregation was founded in 1964, during boom times in Southern California.

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop ... "Queer kids … the church once told them 'you're loved,' but then made that love conditional when they started ...

We're all over the world, quite frankly. But not everyone can be as open as I can. GURA: This is a global church. United Methodist Church is a global institution - has more than 12 million members ...

(RNS) — The fledgling Methodist denomination, which broke away from the United Methodist Church ... for the Global Methodist Church, but we’re looking at are they as an institution aligned ...

A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the ... of each other,” Wilson said. “They’re at an impasse.” The debate kicked into ...

“It’s so friendly,” she said, “you don’t feel like it’s a huge church.” Until July, White’s Chapel was the second-largest United Methodist ... the U.S., the re-enactment of ...

“Yet now is the point at which we're seeing this much more significant disaffiliation happening." Lou Siepel is the lead pastor at Worthington United Methodist Church in the suburbs of Columbu ...

"The United Methodist Church has a rich history in the Amarillo community. In fact, the Methodists were the first congregation to organize in Amarillo back in 1888, and the fact that we're meeting ...