(RNS) — The first two openly gay and married bishops in the United Methodist Church were ... bishop last week in the Western ...

(Ecoscape / Shutterstock) The legal dispute that threatens to separate Southern Methodist University from the United ... enforceable church law. Between that change and the jurisdiction’s ...

chairman of the South Central Jurisdiction Mission Council, said in a statement. Image More than a quarter of United Methodist Church congregations have departed the denomination in recent years ...