In January of 2020, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill into law permitting religious adoption agencies that received state funding to deny the facilitation of foster or adoption placements on the ...

The Pennsylvania man stripped of his ministerial credentials for officiating at his son’s same-sex wedding on Sunday joined a D.C. congregation of the United Methodist Church that embraces gay ...

Methodist minister won’t surrender credentials in gay-marriage dispute A man places a hand on the shoulder of the Rev. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist clergyman suspended for officiating at his son ...

Leaders of the United Methodist Church have defrocked a Pennsylvania minister who officiated at the wedding of his son to another man, NPR's John Burnett tells our Newscast Desk. "Rev. Frank Schaefer ...

What some are calling a schism in the United Methodist Church over the issue of homosexuality is also affecting churches in the Pacific Northwest, although to a lesser degree. As many as 30 churches ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Methodist congregations across California and much of the west say they will no longer bar same-sex weddings on church grounds, according to a newly-discovered church ...

A United Methodist minister who was suspended for officiating at his son’s same-sex marriage said Monday he would not voluntarily surrender his religious credentials even though he could not uphold ...

The Rev. Susan Otey was one of the first members of the clergy in Montana to officiate a same-gender wedding. Otey, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Great Falls, performed the ceremony in ...

The United Methodist Church adopted a new hymnal and theological doctrine Tuesday, rejecting efforts by liberals to drop masculine pronouns from the hymnal`s psalms. The new hymnal, which does use ...

The authors are Emma Anne Stephens, Tate Keuler, and Natalia Del Pino, three students in Metro Nashville public high schools. Their essay is endorsed by their Belmont United Methodist Church ...