United Methodism: How Conservatives Won the Debate, but Lost the Denomination

by Jack Jackson

United Methodism is no longer a misnomer because the progressives have been given what they wanted. Continue Reading »

7 May 2024

The Future of United Methodism

by Dale M. Coulter

With the United Methodist Church dividing over same-sex marriage, Methodists must search to ground their tradition in a return to Wesleyan catholicity. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022

Methodism Dividing

by Kevin Watson

In the summer of 2016, ­Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop and assigned to the Mountain Sky Area of the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. This is but one instance of the willful disregard for official church discipline . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

A Failed Experiment in Methodist Unity

by Dale M. Coulter

After just fifty years, the experiment in Methodist unity that is the United Methodist Church is coming to an end. Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2020

Methodist Schism

by Dale M. Coulter

The two coalitions of the United Methodist Church are already functionally distinct denominations. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2019

Sexuality and the UMC

by Dale M. Coulter

The progressive and traditionalist wings of the UMC cannot live together any longer. Continue Reading »

18 Feb 2019

Methodist Madness

by Charlotte Allen

Duke and other historically-Methodist institutions are lobbying the United Methodist Church to officially change its teaching on sexuality. Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2019

Letters

by Various

R. R. Reno is sympathetic to nationalism because he sees it as a reaction against disenchantment (“Return of the Strong Gods,” May). While I agree that “the banishment of love from our politics is creating the populism that presently troubles us,” it doesn’t strike me that this populism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

A Disunited Methodist Church

by Paul T. Stallsworth

Just as the Roman Catholic Church was shaped, in part, by the culture of the Empire, so Methodism in America was influenced by the democracy of the New World. In their beginnings, American Methodism and the United States of America created three branches of government: legislative, executive, and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2017

A Closed Question And Ecumenism Now

by Richard John Neuhaus

The contention is advanced, with some persuasive force, that the churches lag behind the progress that society has made in recent years with respect to the role of women. In this view, the admission of women to the ordained ministry is a sine qua non of credibility in respecting women’s rights. In . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1992