Bishop Jonathan Holston, who oversees United Methodist churches in Alabama, released clergy assignments on Saturday as the ...

If you have ever heard her preach or sing – oh, can she evermore preach and sing – or watched her leadership skills in action, you had to know the Rev. Dr. Connie Shelton was headed for big things.

A United Methodist Church court acquitted a California bishop Friday of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century. Bishop Minerva Carcaño, the first Latina ...

United Methodist Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, head of the North Alabama Conference, was elected president of the World Methodist Council at its meeting this week in Sweden. Wallace-Padgett, who will ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — About 100 active and retired United Methodist bishops from across the globe are meeting this week in Chicago for the first time in person since the COVID-19 pandemic and since the ...

Five United Methodist jurisdictions decide on new bishop assignments for the U.S. in the last of a series of major legislative decisions this year for the UMC. More bishops will oversee administration ...

Representatives of six area congregations who have voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church met Monday, May 15, in Cape Girardeau with Bishop Scott Jones of the Heartland Conference of ...

Council of Bishops sets out to refocus on the UMC congregations that stay after 2023. United Methodist bishops have proposed a five-day meeting of the denomination’s global decision-making body, the ...

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