On May 22, 2022 the Church of Christ Uniting (COCU), Sprague Avenue and Market Street in Kingston, a merged United Methodist and Presbyterian USA congregation, approved an historic vote (45 yes and 5 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church reversed a 48-year-old policy prohibiting the use of church funds to “promote the acceptance of homosexuality,” the first of several key efforts to make ...

Spirited Women, a Wednesday morning study group at United Methodist Church of Geneva, recently voted to join the Reconciling Ministries Network as a Reconciling Community. Reconciling Ministries ...

Edgehill United Methodist Church in Nashville embraced LGBTQ+ people, mobilizing its members to help build a national movement in the denomination. “Our mission at that point was to say, ‘How do we ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) — In 2005, the First United Methodist Church of Vermillion became the 192nd church to join the Reconciling Ministries Network. And they are the only reconciling ministry in ...

— A year ago, First United Methodist Church decided to become a “reconciling congregation” that welcomes people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Now it is celebrating that move with a ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh United Methodist Church commemorates its 30th anniversary as a Reconciling Congregation in the United Methodist Church in 2022. “The United Methodist Church has really ...

Grace United Methodist Church has affiliated with the Reconciling Ministries Network, making it the third church in Dallas-Fort Worth to join the organization. The group works to encourage the ...

After decades of passionate advocacy, those supporting LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church finally achieved their goals at last year’s general conference. With the advocates’ persistent ...

Despite the feelings of many U.S. United Methodists, measures were taken at the February 2019 General Conference of the United Methodist Church to continue and make more stringent the denomination’s ...

UMC General Conference, the denomination's international legislative assembly which meets every four years, will gather in Charlotte in April. Its agenda includes decisions on anti-LGBTQ policies.