Some Iowa pastors leaving the United Methodist ... That's not the point." At Lenox United Methodist Church, the Rev. Lauri Greenlee said issues on the inclusion of LGBTQ members were not the ...

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NORTH LIBERTY — For the United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Iowa and the United States, unity is no longer a given. As factions of conservative and ...

During a special online session Tuesday hosted by conference leaders, 83 churches in Iowa including Marion Methodist agreed to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church — one of the largest ...

People at a 120-year-old church in central Iowa are trying to keep it from closing at the end of the month. The Ellsworth United Methodist Church, in Ellsworth in Hamilton County, has only 38 ...

AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT. A MAJOR SHIFT FOR THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. LGBTQ CLERGY WILL NOW BE ALLOWED TO SERVE CASEY KAYLA JAMES TALKED TO IOWA MEMBERS WHO TOOK PART IN OVERTURNING THIS DECADES ...

Ten percent of Iowa’s Methodist congregations are leaving the church. The denomination is wrestling over the future of LGBTQ members and whether they can be clergy. The Reverend Anna Blaedel ...

Dozens of Iowa churches are ending their affiliation with the United Methodist Church after a rift developed over Biblical teachings. During a conference last month, the leaders of more than 80 ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL)- Dozens of Iowa churches are parting ways with the United Methodist Church. 83 churches are leaving the Iowa Annual Conference, about 11% of the 750 Methodist churches in Iowa.

Eighty-three churches were approved to part ways with the United Methodist Church this spring. Another 59 churches were approved Nov. 18. The list represents 19% of the churches in Iowa's conference.

The Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church approved a new vision last year that allows Methodist ministers to host same-sex weddings and makes way for gay clergy to serve without ...