Church serves as help site in shooting wake
A woman holds a child as people line up to enter the Newtown United Methodist Church near the scene of an elementary school shooting...
Court to weigh end of clergy job guarantees
Bishops of the United Methodist Church in Angola lay hands on a new pastor during an ordination service in Luanda, Angola. A UMNS file...
Top court says Texas bishop must rule on process question for lesbian clergy candidate
The Judicial Council for the 2012-16 Quadrennium pose for a group photo during the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla. Seated, from...
GC2012: Finding lost native history
The Rev. George "Tink" Tinker visits Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park on the Riverwalk in Tampa, Fla. Tinker will keynote an "Act of Repentance and...
Newtown UMC Coping in Aftermath of School Shootings
Memorial of candles, flowers, stuffed animals, and cards for the children and 6 adults who died at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,...
GC2012: Call for ‘resurrection revolution’
Bishop Peter Weaver (left) welcomes young men from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla. Flanking Weaver...
Sexuality panel displays church’s global variation
By Heather Hahn | Feb. 10, 2015 | MAPUTO, Mozambique (UMNS)
A panel discussion offered a rare glimpse of the wide spectrum of thought on homosexuality...
Judicial Council ruling invalidates change in Episcopal Fund apportionment
A decision to have each of the five U.S. jurisdictions of The United Methodist Church separately bear the cost of episcopal leadership was deemed...
Hurricane Sandy: United Methodists Care and Respond
By Catherine G. Earl, MSW, US Disaster Response | United Methodist Committee on Relief
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See the results!
Over 23,000 clean-up buckets distributed
Over 65,000 hours of volunteer...
GC2012: Repentance outcome to be watched
The Rev. David Wilson, Conference Superindent of the OIMC and Anita Phillips, Executive Director of the Native American Comprehensive Plan present Henrietta Mann, co-editor...