The number of clergy making between $70,000 and $100,000 is 52 men and 23 females. That’s 46 percent of males and 42.6 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It's about time." That thought bubbled to the surface on Wednesday when the Rev. Valerie Steele, of Oklahoma City, learned that ...

One-fifth of United Methodist Church (UMC) congregations in the United States have received approval to schism from the wider denomination. More than 6,000 congregations have separated from the ...

A negotiating team within the United Methodist Church has developed a plan for splitting the denomination, whose members had reached an impasse over whether to allow same-sex marriage and ordination ...

After finally accepting her call to preach, Spencer Cullom took a step of faith and began the yearslong process to become ordained in the United Methodist Church. She believed God called her to become ...

HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) -- Some United Methodist churches are considering splitting from the formal church over issues regarding gay marriage and gay ordination -- and locally, that ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nationwide, some United Methodist churches are disaffiliating because they don’t believe in same-sex marriage or that a pastor can be a part of the LGBTQ+ community. One local ...

One year after Grandview Church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s stance on LGBTQ+ issues, the free-standing church in Manheim Township will mark a historic ...

Wearing white robes and red stoles, clergy from the United Methodist Church walk from the Lancaster County Convention Center to First United Methodist Church Friday for their annual service to ordain ...

That thought bubbled to the surface on Wednesday when the Rev. Valerie Steele, of Oklahoma City, learned that her long-held hope had been realized: the United Methodist Church overturned a 40-year ban ...