United Methodist
United Methodist pastors feel worse and worry more than a decade ago
By Bob Smietana — August 10, 2023
(RNS) — Half have trouble sleeping, a third feel depressed and isolated, half are obese, and three-quarters are worried about money, according to a new study.
Claremont School of Theology ordered to offer land to neighboring universities
By Alejandra Molina — January 27, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — At the center of the dispute is an agreement reached in 1957, when the Claremont Colleges sold the seminary land to relocate in Claremont, a city about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
Idaho church window once depicting Robert E. Lee now honors Black female bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We recognize this section of our window is more than a benign historical marker,’ the United Methodist church’s leaders said in 2020.
In sermon, Stacey Abrams supports Texas Democrats ‘in exile,’ preaches on voting rights
By Adelle M. Banks — August 9, 2021
(RNS) — ‘If the act of electing those to speak for us is not a sacred duty, I do not know what is,’ Abrams told a DC church.
Duke Divinity School dean tapped as Belmont University president
By Yonat Shimron — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — L. Gregory Jones, longtime dean of Duke Divinity School, will become the new president of Nashville's booming, nondenominational Belmont University.
Kirbyjon Caldwell, former presidential adviser who promoted ‘good success,’ sentenced to prison
By Bob Smietana — January 14, 2021
(RNS) — A former presidential adviser, Caldwell advocated for ‘good success’ — achieving financial and spiritual success while remaining moral.
Stacey Abrams’ passion for voting began with her preacher parents
By Adelle M. Banks — October 16, 2020
(RNS) — ‘The family is just a tight-knit cadre of people who understand that it is incumbent upon them to vote,’ said her Georgia pastor.
COVID-19 death of ‘well-loved’ Texas pastor shows coronavirus spread to rural areas
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 5, 2020
(RNS) — A small United Methodist church in Texas is ‘absolutely heartbroken’ after losing its pastor to the coronavirus, according to the church’s district superintendent.
Why Jewish mediator Kenneth Feinberg wants to save the United Methodist Church
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 10, 2020
(RNS) — 'I thought that the church and what it stands for and its impact on the day-to-day lives of people was important and that we should step up and try and preserve that, which hopefully we've done,' says Feinberg.
Evidence of improper voting raises questions about Methodist gay clergy vote
By Jack Jenkins — March 15, 2019
(RNS) — Church officials say they are concerned about the possibility that improper votes were cast.
‘Jeopardy!’ clergy contestants keep the faith, organize prayer service for Trebek
By Bob Smietana — March 8, 2019
(RNS) — An interfaith group of former 'Jeopardy!' clergy contestants is organizing a prayer service for longtime host Alex Trebek, who recently announced he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Liberals run risk in weaponizing church discipline against Sessions
By Jacob Lupfer — June 21, 2018
(RNS ) — A move by members of the United Methodist Church to rein in Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a symptom of our exhaustion over the immigration debate. But the liberals' sudden commitment to church discipline is shortsighted and likely to backfire.
A Q&A with Hillary Clinton’s pastor: Bill Shillady on ministering to the candidate
By Zach Hoag — August 15, 2017
(RNS) — 'She’s a good Methodist. Methodists don’t talk about their faith very much. She doesn’t wear her religion on her sleeve, but I know that she practices it and she has spiritual disciplines, including reading the Scriptures every day and praying every day,' said Shillady.
United Methodism’s global evangelical transformation
By Mark Tooley — May 27, 2016
(RNS) Decades ago it never occurred to me nor to many evangelicals in United Methodism that our church's membership decline and theological liberalism in America would be reversed by dramatic growth in Africa.
Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students
By Jesse James DeConto — May 26, 2016
(RNS) A small, but growing number of transgender students seek out divinity school precisely because it is a place where they can wrestle with questions about their place and purpose in the universe.
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