facebook

5,200 churches exit UMC in 2023 over LGBTQ+ policies

Broad Street United Methodist Church in Cleveland, TN is shown on a cloudy morning.

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is experiencing significant division over its stance on homosexuality, resulting in over 7,000 congregations leaving the denomination since 2019. More than 5,200 churches have disaffiliated in 2023 alone. Notable departures …

Read more

Same-sex couple blessings in the Catholic Church

Love is written on a drawing of a stained glass window.

Pope Francis’s recent openness to priests offering blessings to same-sex couples has generated attention. While Catholic Church doctrine defines marriage as between one man and one woman, the Pope’s comments emphasize the importance of pastoral …

Read more

New survey on college students’ gender, sexual orientation and religion

A diverse group of college students are shown looking at the phone of one.

(ANALYSIS) The religious group that is the most likely to be straight is
Muslims at 85%, followed closely by a whole bunch of other groups such as
Protestants, Catholics, “just Christians” and Hindus. But here’s a really
big surprise to me — only 78% of Latter-day Saints in college say that they
are straight.

>