by Robert Parham | Apr 8, 2013 | Opinion
The United Methodist Church won a moral victory – in a way – when Associated Press (AP) announced that it was changing its stylebook to stop sanctioning the use of the term “illegal immigrant.” Methodists began their “Drop the I-Word” campaign...
by Michael O'Malley | Aug 26, 2011 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) Hundreds of United Methodists are meeting in Huron, Ohio, this week in an uphill bid to make their 12 million-member denomination more gay-friendly. Activists are gearing up for next year’s General Conference meeting in Tampa, Fla., where they plan to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 21, 2011 | News
United Methodist Church leaders sent a letter to the ranking members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security opposing the altering of the DREAM Act urged by a Southern Baptist Convention official. “You have recently...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 24, 2011 | News
(RNS) A United Methodist minister was suspended for 20 days by a church court in Wisconsin on Thursday (June 23) for performing a same-sex union in 2009, a breach of denominational rules. A 13-member jury of local United Methodist clergy voted 9-4 to suspend the Rev....
by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 4, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A United Methodist agency has withdrawn its endorsement from this weekend’s One Nation Working Together rally here, an event that has drawn support from religious progressive groups. In a Friday (Oct. 1) announcement, the General Board of Church &...
