United Methodists opened the annual meeting of the North Alabama Conference on Wednesday in Huntsville and on Thursday welcomed a report from the financially struggling Birmingham-Southern College, ...

The 6,000-plus U.S. churches that split from the United Methodists as of June were disproportionately white and Southern but also had more in common — from median attendance size to growth rate — with ...

The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments. By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in ...

Southern Methodist University publicly released the terms of its agreement with the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation on Monday afternoon, three days after finalizing a deal for the ...

One of the most iconic and famous speeches of American history marks its 60th anniversary on Aug. 28. The Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech transformed the national perspective on the ...

For years, mainline Protestant denominations in America have creeped toward theological and political liberalism on hot-button issues such as race, gender and sexuality. But the largest of the ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

(RNS) — Though I am a lifelong Southern Baptist, I followed last weekend’s United Methodist Special General Conference very closely. Over the course of three days, church delegates from all over the ...

Nazi-style posters and images at Southern Methodist are the latest examples of white nationalists feeling bolder at colleges and universities. While it’s unsurprising now when racist, homophobic or ...

Jackson, capital of Mississippi, birthplace of the Confederacy and scene of Jefferson Davis’s last speech (1884), has a population of 48,282 souls. When members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...