Emily McFarlan Miller, Author at MinistryWatch - Page 3 of 9
More than 100 churches are suing the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to immediately disaffiliate from the denomination.
The Episcopal Church will create a fact-finding commission to research the denomination’s role in the federal Indian boarding school system that separated generations of Indigenous children from their families and cultures in the 19th and ...
Because of COVID-related delays to the General Conference meeting, four years will have passed by the time delegates finally can vote on the plan they negotiated.
Commissioners for the Presbyterian Church in America approved a motion to leave the National Association of Evangelicals on Wednesday (June 22) at the PCA’s General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama.
The United States operated 408 boarding schools for Indigenous children across 37 states or then-territories between 1819 and 1969—half of them likely supported by religious institutions.
The Judicial Council ruled Tuesday (May 10) that only the General Conference, the denomination’s global decision-making body, can determine the process and conditions for annual conferences to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church.
RNS - A statement posted on Facebook Tuesday (May 3) by the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Florida chapter caught the attention of the Florida bishop for the United Methodist Church: “107 Florida Methodist Churches Depart United ...
Sunday (May 1), the Global Methodist Church, a new theologically conservative denomination splintering from the United Methodist Church, quietly launched.
The United Methodist Church has delayed its General Conference meeting for a third time due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In response, some conservative United Methodists have announced they will preemptively leave the denomination rather ...
A caller on a Houston-area radio show Thursday (Dec. 2), claimed he found hundreds of envelopes full of cash and checks in a wall while fixing a loose toilet last month at Osteen’s Lakewood Church ...
