LGBTQ clergy
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.
The Methodist mess in St. Louis
The UMC's response to declining membership is to spend millions deciding who else we can exclude.
United Lutheran Seminary fires president
Theresa F. Latini led an organization that taught that sexuality could be changed. She now rejects that—but students, faculty, and alumni charged her and the board with keeping that fact secret.