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Originally church officials expected that a $604 million quadrennial budget would be approved at the General Conference. But now the proposal is reduced to $346.7 million, or a 43 percent cut ...
Mark Hipps-Figgs offers a prayer request during a service of Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Mark and Maxie Hipps-Figgs were the first gay couple ...
The United Methodist Church Split, Explained. Norman Hubbard. January 2, 2024 at 2:43 AM. The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “ big tent ” denomination. But ...
United Methodist Church. On May 7, 2018, the Bishops in the United Methodist Church, a denomination long divided on questions of LGBT equality, have proposed allowing individual pastors and regional church bodies to decide whether to ordain LGBT clergy and perform same-sex weddings.
A quarter of the church’s approximately 30,000 congregations said they planned to remove themselves from the United Methodist Church as of Dec. 31. The church is one of America's largest ...
Karen Oliveto (born April 4, 1958 [1]) is an American bishop. She is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church. She was elected bishop on July 15, 2016, at the Western Jurisdictional conference. [2] Her four-year term of service began September 1, 2016 and she currently serves as the bishop of the UMC's ...
Cedrick Bridgeforth. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth (born in Decatur, Alabama) is an American United Methodist clergyman who was elected bishop by the Western Jurisdictional Conference in November 2022. He is the first openly gay African American man to be elected bishop in the United Methodist Church.
The couple married in 2022 at what was then Mosaic United Methodist Church, painfully aware that the retired minister who officiated and, perhaps, their church, might pay negative consequences.