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How Nashville’s ex-evangelicals are making their own Christmas traditions

Marianna Bacallao

December 19, 2024

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For the  growing number of women leaving the church, Christmas can be a particularly difficult time. So, some are making their own traditions.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Christmas, evangelical, lgbt, lgbtq, music, religion, United Methodist Church

Nashville’s churches — and their land holdings — could boost affordable housing. Here’s how Metro wants to help.

Cynthia Abrams

September 26, 2024

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The role of churches, and the land they own, are an increasing focus of Nashville’s efforts to improve housing affordability. Federal funding will help Metro take a coordinating role.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Barnes Housing Trust Fund, church, Housing, Metro Government, United Methodist Church

United Methodists repeal longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy

Peter Smith, AP

May 1, 2024

They removed a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, religion, United Methodist Church

New Methodist denomination forms after years of debate on LGBTQ policies

This Is Nashville

May 18, 2022

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The Tennessean’s religion reporter Liam Adams joined This Is Nashville on Wednesday to explain what is happening in the United Methodist Church and the role Nashville plays in the split.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, News Hits, WPLN News Tagged With: Global Methodist Church, United Methodist Church

Opponents Of Woodbine Tiny Homes For The Homeless Mount Their Legal Battleundefined

Meribah Knight

October 30, 2017

Listen A group of neighbors opposing a cluster of tiny homes for the homeless in Woodbine are fleshing out their legal argument against the project. In a new court filing, they say the non-religious organization behind the homes is unlawfully skirting zoning laws with the religious land use act.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: religion, United Methodist Church

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