In the US, breakaway Texas UMC megachurch reveals plans for new Methodist denomination
Southlake, Texas, USRNS Last year, White’s Chapel, a large congregation in a wealthy suburb outside of Dallas, overwhelmingly voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church. Today, the church, which draws more than 2,000 people on a Sunday, belongs to a denomination of one, a network it is calling the Methodist Collegiate Church. White’s Chapel Methodist […]
United Methodists: Texas megachurch White’s Chapel departs UMC to anchor new Methodist ‘college’
BELYNN HOLLARS and EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service report on White’s Chapel United Methodist Church’s bid to become what co-pastor Rev John McKellar calls “a healing agent between all of Methodism”…
Wally Funk’s church celebrates her Blue Origin spaceflight: “What an inspiration she’s been to us all”
RNS Six decades after being denied a spot in the space program by NASA because of her gender, 82-year-old Wally Funk finally reached space aboard the first human flight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture, Blue Origin. Few people were more excited for Funk than her fellow congregants at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church […]