An 80-year relationship between Asbury Theological Seminary and the United Methodist Church has come to an end after the denomination removed the Evangelical institution from its list of approved seminaries over disagreements about same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy.
A couple in Brazil have become the first parents in the country to be criminally convicted for homeschooling their children, sentenced to 50 days in prison after a judge ruled their curriculum failed to include state-approved content on gender, sexuality and cultural diversity.
Indiana has enacted legislation to protect faith-based foster care providers, as couples in other states have been blocked from serving as foster parents because of their religious beliefs about gender and sexuality.
The Church of England’s General Synod has voted to end plans for stand-alone blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples in churches after extended debate. The decision also closes a years-long process that had examined whether such ceremonies could be introduced.
During a Passion 2026 session built around audience-submitted inquiries, Cliffe Knechtle, an American pastor and Christian apologist, addressed what organizers said were the most common questions young adults are asking today, questions about God’s existence, suffering, sexuality, morality and salvation.
The Most Rev. Cherry Vann, the first openly lesbian archbishop in the world, recently lamented that some people are leaving her church in protest of her gender and sexuality.
Maryland education officials have approved a proposal to remove gender identity lessons from the kindergarten health curriculum and push the topic to fifth grade amid concerns from parents.
The United Methodist Church will allow regions of the global body to maintain biblical standards on sexual ethics, following the denomination's vote last year to remove such rules.