A handful of locals braved the Thursday morning rain last week as Floyd Wheeler unveiled the almost-complete renovations of ...

To be published: all church notices and changes in church notices may be submitted no later than 10 a.m. Wednesday. Each notice will run as is until further notice is received from the church. People ...

The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments. By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on ...

Sang in the Janesville United Methodist Church choir ... An avid collector of Lenox figurines and ornamental pigs. Willie Levi, 73, Waterloo. Freed from a decrepit Iowa bunkhouse by a Des Moines ...

A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze, according to United Methodist News Service. The news ...

Rev. David Wagner knows his history. Wagner's been a pastor in the United Methodist Church for 46 years and he still works part-time in Ackley even though he "retired" from the United Methodist ...

But in the years that followed, some 7,600 U.S. conservative Methodist congregations located mostly in the South left the church over its lack of enforcement of the anti-LGBTQ policies.

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

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 ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

The United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from serving in the church’s clergy—the latest measure in an ongoing effort to revisit the church’s ...