It would be easier to say I teach church history. Not accurate, but easier. I did have the honor of teaching American history for five years at Fairmont State University; since then, I’ve been an ...
In a move that some are calling “defiant,” delegates at the annual meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church last Saturday declared themselves a “One Church Plan ...
The UMC, a global church, prides itself on its democratic and decentralized polity. All this shapes its response to LGBTQ couples and clergy. I used to read Ephesians 4 and get that vague, warm glow ...
Do church and state really need to be separate? Are they at all? Many Americans are keen on the line drawn between these two spheres, regarding it as a key tenet of American values. Yet we know that ...
Like other mainline Protestant churches, the Presbyterian Church (USA), of which my congregation is a member, has experienced shrinkage and divisive controversy in recent decades. But one thing has ...
The Southworth lectures for 1914-15 will be delivered by the Reverend Ambrose White Vernon, D.D., Minister of the Harvard Church, Brookline, in Room A. Andover Theological Seminary, on Tuesday and ...
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri (left), secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin Farrell (right), prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, with youth ...
The western district of the United Methodist church (UMC) elected an openly gay bishop on Friday, despite its ban on same-sex relationships. The Rev Karen Oliveto was elected late in the evening at a ...
As in other matters pertaining to faith and practice, the evangelical looks to Scripture when he defines the boundaries of acceptable church government. At first glance, however, Scripture seems ...