As society doubles down on online sports gambling, older activists see a chance to renew the Christian conscience around the practice.

UPDATE: Southern Seminary and Asbury Seminary are among large Christian employers arguing that the requirement represents government overreach and a First Amendment violation.

Christian health workers and pastors navigate stigma at Apostolic, evangelical, and Methodist congregations.

The ministry leader believed declining US churches could be revitalized by hearing Wesleyans “with a different accent.”

Conservative Methodists worry about their place in the denomination ahead of delayed plans for a split over LGBT issues.

With a denominational split delayed, some are willing to pay big to exit now.

In the Music City, CCM sales outpace country albums.

For 100th anniversary, the Museum of the Bible restored the “Book of Redemption.”

The new Global Methodist Church will leave the UMC regardless of the General Conference decision, which has been delayed until 2022.

Church leaders believe entrepreneurial pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell already accounted for the wrong by apologizing and repaying investors.

The Sierra Leone bishop convened a pivotal roundtable to resolve longstanding UMC divisions over LGBT issues.

As an evangelical leader in the Global South, I see how Packer brought credibility and renewal to churches in Sri Lanka and other nations.

Besides budget approvals, most denominational business can be rescheduled.

Kirbyjon Caldwell has led the UMC’s biggest African American megachurch for decades.

There’s broad support for a new plan to allow traditional marriage proponents to leave the UMC with $25 million in funding.

A year after a historic vote to settle stance on homosexuality, the denomination is planning for divide.

The UMC has decided to relocate its 2024 General Conference from Manila, Philippines.

(UPDATED) Traditional Plan survives legal review, but could still set the UMC on path to division over gay marriage and clergy as Judicial Council also approves exit plan for dissenting churches.

The tradition is largest in the US but today has a strong international presence. How did that happen?