United Methodists: As a landmark gathering approaches, African churches weigh their future.

PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, reports on how African Methodists are responding to the UMC’s dispute over sexuality and theology…
Saints of Past Ages: How Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the temperance movement

CHRISTOPHER H EVANS, professor of the history of Christianity at Boston University, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at the life and legacy of a key US temperance movement leader…
United Methodists: Bishop Scott Jones moves from “extreme centre” of UMC to new Global Methodist Church

He isn’t the first bishop to leave the United Methodist Church for the fledgling conservative denomination. But his exit has arguably caused the greatest stir reports EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service…
Faith communities: How the UK’s Kairos Movement is “reviving the energy of the early Methodist mission”

ANGELA YOUNGMAN speaks with those behind the new Kairos movement within the Methodist Church in the UK…
Founding fathers: Methodist racial history recalled on 250th anniversary of Asbury’s US arrival

ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, looks to remember the role Francis Asbury played in helping develop Methodism in America – and in the Black Christian experience in Philadelphia…
“Love feasts”: How Methodists are reviving a centuries old tradition online

KIMBERLY WINSTON reports for Religion Unplugged on the return of the Methodist ritual known as “love feasts”…
US Attorney General cleared in church complaint, perplexing some top Methodists

RNS United Methodist Church officials in Alabama have dismissed a complaint signed by more than 600 church members in July that chided Attorney General Jeff Sessions for implementing the family separation policy along the border and attempting to justify it with Scripture. But the logic of the decision, which cited a distinction between personal behavior […]
CASTING THE NET: METHODIST HERITAGE

DAVID ADAMS looks at a website all about the history of Methodism…