(RNS) — Talk of schism in the United Methodist Church has prompted me to revisit the research I did in the 1980s as the Southern Baptist Convention was being transformed into the monolithically ...

Baptists and Methodists helped build Alabama. Both started their first Alabama churches in 1808, then became fixtures in every town of any size in the state. Since Alabama was founded in 1819, ...

Methodists also created the Methodists Children's Home in Centenary in 1898 that is now located in Selma. Carraway Hospital in Birmingham was originally sponsored by Methodists. Many other schools and ...

St. Luke United Methodist Church and Shady Grove Baptist Church are putting aside denominational differences to work on the homes of people in Morgan County this week.

For a number of U.S. Protestant churches, the Civil War had the divisive effect of a minor Reformation. The Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans split into Northern and Southern branches ...

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 ...

War. As was the case with the Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists, the Baptists concluded their annual conference at Milwaukee (TIME, June 9), by compromising on the war issue.* A ...

Under the new restructuring plan, called 'regionalization,' the denomination's nine regions will be equal partners with ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The Christmas eve celebration is looking a little different for both First Methodist and First Baptist churches in Marshall as they held a joint Christmas eve service on Tuesday ...