I have a number of friends at the United Methodist General Conference, where the denomination is making decisions that will determine the future of their denomination. Most of those friends are ...

More than 1,100 people attended the Global Methodist Church General Conference in Africa, with the theologically conservative ...

Members of the crowd embrace, rejoicing over the vote. (Corbin Payne photo) The Rev. William Williams III, the Methodists' Meadowlands District superintendent, holds hands with Greater New Jersey ...

The Global Methodist Church adopted a new set of Articles of Faith and elected eight bishops to its first regular Assembly of Bishops as its General Conference concluded Sept. 5 at the Sandton ...

By Samuel Spio-Gabrah Sakumono, Sept. 19, GNA — The Association of Methodist Men’s Fellowship (AMMF) of the Methodist Church ...

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(RNS) The United Methodist Church General Conference convenes once every four years to make policy decisions and set the direction for the denomination. Beginning Tuesday (May 10), 864 delegates, half ...

The Rev. Paul Lawler, a former Birmingham pastor, was elected as a bishop in the Global Methodist Church this week during its General Conference that concluded today in South Africa. Lawler, who grew ...

I must confess that I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what our friends in the United Methodist Church were thinking when they introduced resolutions calling for divesting stock in 20 companies ...