Sam Hodges
United Methodists plan a split over LGBTQ differences
A diverse 16-member group of United Methodist bishops and other leaders has offered a proposal that would preserve the United Methodist Church while allowing traditionalist-minded congregations to ...
Wilmot Collins, who came to U.S. as a refugee, begins work as mayor of Helena, Montana
“He feels he can make a difference, and I think he can,” said a fellow member of Covenant United Methodist Church.
United Methodist court rules against consecrating gay and lesbian bishops
At the end of the day, Karen Oliveto remains a bishop even after the United Methodist Church’s top court ruled that consecrating a gay bishop violates church law.
...Nat Dixon, pastor and jazz musician, releases new album
Before Nat Dixon preaches, he picks up his tenor saxophone and riffs a bit.
...Amid tensions, Doris Smith is pastor and police
She’s a plainclothes cop, but on Sunday mornings she wears a uniform: her clergy robe and stole.
...Kenneth and Linda Carder find grace amid memory loss
Some residents of the Bethany memory care unit can’t remember their loved ones’ names, much less the unit chaplain’s. But when Kenneth Carder preaches, they lean in.
...James Fowler, pastoral psychology scholar, dies at age 75
James W. Fowler III, a scholar of practical theology and pastoral psychology, died October 16 in Atlanta, at age 75, from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.
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West African Methodists in U.S. mourn relatives dead from Ebola
At Spencer Memorial United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, nearly nine out of ten members are Liberian; another 10 percent are from Sierra Leone....