The Methodist Church may no longer be the largest denomination in America. Its rate of growth not compare well with that of Protestantism in general. For the past six years there has been a decided ...

(RNS) Decades ago it never occurred to me nor to many evangelicals in United Methodism that our church's membership decline and theological liberalism in America would be reversed by dramatic growth ...

I distinguish between two theses, DPJ and DGP. DPJ asserts that one's justification for accepting particular epistemic propositions positively depends on one's being justified in believing general ...

The Rev. Randy Mickler may know a lot about the Bible. He may be one of those gifted men who can rattle off verses from memory and preach life-altering sermons without any notes. Mickler may know a ...

In a final vote, delegates at United Methodism’s governing General Conference rejected the One Church Plan heavily pushed by most USA bishops to overturn the church’s definition of marriage as husband ...

Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago’s Bankers Building, lives in suburban Wilmette. A devout ...

John Wesley, co-founder (with brother Charles) of Methodism: You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1953, Carole (Purvines) Young and her then-fiance, Tom, bolted Illinois for Nashville, Tenn., to get married. The couple, who had been together five years, eschewed a more formal church wedding in ...

The United Methodist Church is the latest Protestant group caught in the shifting currents of world Christianity. While the American denomination is shrinking at home, its congregations in the ...

A celebration of 175 years of Methodism on the North Coast will take place Sunday, Sept. 21, at the First United Methodist Church, 520 Del Norte St. in Eureka. Worship starts at 11 a.m. All six of the ...