The origin of Scranton’s first Methodist Church reaches back to the Battle of Wyoming in the late 1700s and a Kingston blacksmith who credited God with his survival. A 1968 Scranton Times article ...

Hymnals and Bibles sit in pews during a service at Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown [email protected] The clash United ...

The headline in the Nov. 21, 1918, issue of the Centenary Bulletin read, “Whole Country Hears of Little Elmira Church.” The article stated, “Elmira has the honor of leading all Methodism in the ...

United Methodist history is complicated. As with most Christian denominations, it is a history full of the wide range of human emotions, from great hope in revival and great sadness in division. For ...

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Church leaders agreed to spin off a ‘traditionalist Methodist’ denomination, and allow the remainder of the denomination to permit same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy for the first time in its history ...

Members of Bonita Methodist Church are celebrating its 125-year anniversary this weekend by looking back at its history with ...

Methodist Hospital announced Thursday it has received a $4 million gift from philanthropists Tom and Bea Hollfelder – the largest outright gift made by individual donors in the hospital’s 106-year ...

The church has long delayed an anticipated split over LGBTQ issues — until now. It’s not going to be easy. As some in North Carolina look to disaffiliate from UMC for more conservative theology, ...