Before the service starts on Sunday morning at San Diego Reformed Church, the building fills with the sound of singing. Sean ...

This month the United and Southern Presbyterian Churches released through their magazines the central “Service for the Lord’s Day” for inclusion in a worship book and hymnal due by 1972.

(RNS) — The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series ... publish their own hymnal and rituals, including rites for marriage; and establish its own judicial courts.

3:13). I may be wasting my breath. But here’s my pastor’s pitch for why schism from the United Methodist Church is a bad idea. After just 40 years of debate on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ ordination—a ...

Its members included Montgomery minister Ralph Abernathy; Andrew Young, a Congregationalist minister from New Orleans; James Lawson from the United Methodist Church; and Wyatt T. Walker ...

The GMC’s creation in 2022 resulted from the schism of what was once America’s third largest religious body, the United Methodist Church. More than 7,900 congregations, with their property ...

History intersected with history on Oct. 18, when the Fisk University Choir sang in Evanston at the invitation of Lula B.

This year marks the first Christmas since almost 40% of churches in the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church officially disaffiliated from — in a word, left — the ...

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Splintering in the United Methodist Church following disagreements over theology and church policy — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — fueled exodus of thousands of churches. Many ...

As written, the play, first performed in 1938, is a spare and sober anatomy of a community, rather than a cozily sentimental hymnal ... “the United States of America; Continent of North America ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace. In that declaration, the United Nations ...