In 2001, representatives of the Confessing and the Good News movements and representatives of the Reconciling Ministries Network and the Clergy Alliance for a Professing Church came to DePauw ...

Three United Methodist churches in Franklin County have chosen to split with their denomination amidst a nationwide schism over sexuality and theology. The last disaffiliation was finalized during the ...

In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Ed Rowe, left, Rebecca Wilson, Robin Hager and Jill Zundel, react to the defeat of a proposal that would allow LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage within the United ...

Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church that in 2017 received $806,763 from the denomination to train future ordinands. The ...

When Rahdearra Paris Woods’ pastor discovered she was dating a girl, he began summoning her to the front of the Pentecostal congregation and asking parishioners to “pray the demon out of her.” She was ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

At a time when theology schools and seminaries are downsizing, merging or closing, Denver’s Iliff School of Theology is holding steady. The United Methodist-related school, tucked next to the ...

News emerged Jan. 3 that the United Methodist Church (UMC) would be united no more: the denomination was going to disunite into two smaller sects, one called “traditionalist.” The split comes because ...

DALLAS — Rev. Dr. Charles "Chuck" Aaron, the Director of the Intern Program at Perkins School of Theology at SMU, died on Wednesday, according to Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, where he was a ...

United Methodists in Arizona face an uncertain future as the United Methodist Church voted on Tuesday to uphold church bans on same-sex weddings and the ordination of gay clergy. The plan, passed ...

Historic decisions continue to be made from local to national levels within the United Methodist Church, a denomination facing division as some churches vote to disaffiliate over theological and ...

ST. LOUIS — The United Methodist Church teetered on the brink of breakup Monday after more than half the delegates at an international conference voted to maintain bans on same-sex weddings and ...