United Methodist News

• A vision of new United Methodism March 1, 2021
  Just as the world will face a new normal due to ways that COVID-19 has changed us, the new United Methodism will definitely be different, writes a Dallas pastor.
• The content of our character March 1, 2021
  Leading into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Religion and Race top executive calls for the church to address its institutional racism.
• Planned denomination gets name March 1, 2021
  ‘Global Methodist Church’ is choice of traditionalists planning to separate from The United Methodist Church.
• Church responds to chaplain's call to help soldiers February 26, 2021
  A National Guard chaplain got Bibles, games and 150 copies of a new book about courage when he turned to Wesley Theological Seminary for help keeping soldiers occupied in Washington in the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection.
• Can a divided church serve a divided society? February 26, 2021
  As The United Methodist Church heads toward possible separation, a pastor reflects on what history can teach us.
• Discipleship's top executive dies of cancer February 25, 2021
  United Methodists of varying views remember the Rev. Junius B. Dotson as a leader committed to Christ and a protocol negotiator hopeful about the church’s future.
• General Conference postponed until 2022 February 25, 2021
  Organizers have postponed the full General Conference, including proposals for a church split, until 2022 when delegates can meet in person. A special one-day, virtual General Conference is planned for May 8.
• Church’s future again a hot topic February 24, 2021
  Despite pandemic-related uncertainties, there’s been a surge of commentary on whether The United Methodist Church should split.
• Cyclone survivors receive new houses February 24, 2021
  Longtime partnership with Baltimore-Washington Conference provides hope to families in Zimbabwe left homeless by the March 2019 disaster.
• Delegates map out vision for church future February 23, 2021
  An international group of General Conference delegates asked United Methodists around the globe to help imagine a better way to be the church.