Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to Millsaps College, a small liberal arts institution in Jackson, Miss. There is civil strife going on within the ...

A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

Where is Methodism going? The writer does not really know where Methodism is bound. Like the mythical bird that flies backward, he only knows where he has been. One might say that Methodism is going ...

In 1766 Philip Embury and a handful of John Wesley’s disciples organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than ...

There is civil strife going on within the Methodist church around the United States, and while members fight it out in disaffiliation battles centered around sexuality and power within the church, one ...