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The 12 older adults worked for the south side-based Community Development for All People. They lost their jobs at the end of June.
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Ousted Methodist clergy to work in central Ohio. Wants reinstatement after church lifts anti-gay banTwenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating 鈥淐hristian teaching鈥 because she had acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman.
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Camp Otterbein has entertained summer campers in Hocking Hills for decades. But this summer, camps were canceled. And it鈥檚 uncertain if Otterbein will ever host campers again.
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The United Methodist Church may split in two over LGBTQ issues. A new proposal co-authored by an Ohio bishop would allow for "traditionalist" Methodist鈥
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A group of leaders from the United Methodist Church announced a plan Friday to split the Protestant denomination over its beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.
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The United Methodist Church General Conference in May will vote on a plan to split into more than one denomination after years of debate over whether to allow same sex marriage in the church. Reverend Andy Call, lead pastor at Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights, had high praise for mediator Kenneth Feinberg and the negotiating team that led to the proposed split.
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A university in Ohio has ended its affiliation with the United Methodist Church over the denomination's renewed bans on LGBT clergy and same-sex鈥
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Ohio Wesleyan University is quiet after the end of the semester, a calm campus belying an internal struggle.Though most students are gone for the summer,鈥
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The head of higher education ministry for the United Methodist Church is saddened that Baldwin Wallace University has decided to end its affiliation...
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Ohio Wesleyan University's president says the school is taking a "one-year pause in its relationship" with the United Methodist Church in the wake of a鈥