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LGBTQ United Methodists hope to build on 2024 gains
Pauli Murray Center to celebrate grand opening of trailblazing priest's childhood home
Ivory Coast splits with UMC but other African conferences slow to follow
Pope Francis apologizes for using homophobic slurs while saying 'no' to gay priests
Defrocked UMC pastor reinstated after LGBTQ bans lifted
United Methodists strike down ban on ordination of gay clergy
Gay man says he was kicked off Baptist World Alliance commissions
Former Bishop Megan Rohrer, forced to resign, sues ELCA
by Emily McFarlan Miller
Frank Griswold, who led Episcopal Church through LGBTQ debate, dies at 85
by Episcopal News Service Staff
Groundbreaking Episcopal priest Pauli Murray to be featured on US quarters
by Egan Millard
Influential Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong dies at 90
by Bob Smietana
by Heather Hahn
Darrell Goodwin to be first director of new United Church of Christ conference
by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
by Sam Hodges
LGBTQ pioneer Louie Crew Clay dies at 82
Deon Johnson named bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
‘Safe harbor’ offered to LGBTQ Methodists
United Methodist pastor will face church trial for being a "self-avowed practicing homosexual."
by Arthur McClanahan and Dan Gangler
The United Methodist meeting offered no clear way forward. What now?
The UMC, a global church, prides itself on its democratic and decentralized polity. All this shapes its response to LGBTQ couples and clergy.
by Anne Burkholder
The Methodist mess in St. Louis
The UMC's response to declining membership is to spend millions deciding who else we can exclude.
by William H. Willimon