Canonists, seminarians, as well as Methodist and episcopal laymen ... Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes ...

She said overturning the LGBTQ+ clergy ordination ban was a significant ... Views varied among Oklahoma ministers who withdrew from the United Methodist Church as their congregations disaffiliated ...

Cox petitioned the local United Methodist authority’s board of ordained ministry to reconsider her application for commissioning. Twenty-four days later on June 1 at the West Ohio Conference ann ...

Local leaders of the Uni­ted Methodist Church are letting the denomination ... the Traditional Plan that rejects gay marriage and ordination of gay clergy. After hours of debate, the ...