For many, the schism that has wracked the United Methodist Church seemed inevitable, though it was an outcome few wanted. The departure of a quarter of the church’s approximately 30,000 congregations ...

A congregant recently compared the pulpit voice of Rev. David McEntire to warm maple syrup, capturing both his pleasant tenor voice itself, with its faint Southern inflection, and his soothing, ...

After 15 years leading the congregation at Howland United Methodist Church, Pastor Matt Darrin and his family are leaving ...

Twenty years after getting kicked out of the United Methodist Church (UMC) for being gay, a pastor was finally reinstated. Beth Stroud, a 54-year-old lesbian, was defrocked from her role as a United ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Methodist pastor from Philadelphia, who was defrocked 20 years ago for being in a same-sex relationship, has been reinstated. Beth Stroud made headlines when she was ousted in ...

A Methodist minister in Northern Virginia could face punishment for officiating a same-sex marriage ceremony. A community of Methodists surrounded Drew Ensz in prayer and song Tuesday as he prepared ...

The pastor at one of the largest United Methodist churches in Harrisburg has been stripped of his clergy credentials in what he and a church council member are calling retaliatory and punitive ...

A Methodist Connecticut pastor accused of dealing crystal meth out of his church’s parsonage was a no-show at his arraignment last week, leading a judge to re-issue a warrant for his arrest. Herbert ...

The Rev. T.H. “Buzz” Barrett, who worked as a disc jockey at Birmingham radio stations in the 1960s and then became a popular and respected United Methodist minister for several decades, has died.

For two months, the new pastor of two Salt Lake City Methodist churches has been driving to the homes of her congregants to introduce herself and to take selfies. The Rev. AJ Bush pulls up to a house, ...