Clayton LaPosta’s family was not church going until he was a teenager. LaPosta, who grew up in Washington’s Tylerdale neighborhood, began accompanying his grandmother to services at the city’s Fourth Presbyterian Church. It was through these trips to the house of worship on Jefferson Avenue that LaPosta decided he wanted to become a minister. He […]
Hundreds of United Methodists will gather in Charlotte, N.C., in the next two weeks to make big decisions on the religious denomination’s policies, finances, inclusiveness and future. The international conference, referred to as the 2020 General Conference because the original event was postponed during the pandemic, comes after years of
Good News and the Wesleyan Covenant Association used to operate as unofficial traditionalist caucuses within The United Methodist Church, advocating at General Conference and elsewhere on denominational policy.
This is the busy season for Pastor Dylan Parson. Like many Methodist pastors, he leads not just the Hill Top congregation in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood but a charge of churches including Spencer and Fairhaven. Each building is within about 5 miles of the other on the south side of the
HARRISVILLE Residents of Slippery Rock, Harrisville and Grove City gather each Sunday at 10 a.m. to pray together in a banquet hall of Harrisville’s fire department, an hour before the Harrisville U.