More than 70 United Methodist pastors from the West Ohio Annual Conference participated in or bore witness to the same-sex wedding ceremony on Saturday, May 7. One of the clergy participants acknowledged the ceremony is in violation of UM Church teaching, but said it would “excite, engage and motivate others working for change.” The same […]

– September/October 2000 – In the height of the 1960s civil rights era, the Rev. Melvin Talbert was locked in a jail cell in Atlanta for three days with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The two men were joined by 30 other student radicals who had been arrested during a demonstration against segregation. The captive […]

– By Donald A. D. Thorsen – In May, the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States, will meet in Portland for its quadrennial nine-day general conference. Among its actions, the United Methodists will be asked to reaffirm their doctrinal statement that the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. […]

Nearly nine of 10 Americans have relied upon healing prayer at some point in their lives, praying for others even more than for themselves, according to a study by a Baylor University epidemiologist. “The most surprising finding is that more than a quarter of all Americans have practiced laying on of hands — and nearly […]

By Walter Fenton In open defiance of The United Methodist Church’s Book of Discipline and less than three months before General Conference, the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference Board of Ordained Ministry announced that it has recommended Tara “T.C.” Morrow for commissioning as a Provisional Deacon. Morrow is married to another woman. The recommendation came during the […]